Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today
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The version that started to bring all Microsoft’s pieces together
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 becoming available on August 24, 1996.
Windows NT 4.0, codenamed “Tukwila,” went on retail sale exactly 30 years ago. This was the version that started to deliver on the promise of Microsoft’s long-running Windows NT project. NT 4 married the very solid NT operating system with a slightly modified version of the Windows Explorer desktop from Windows 95, which is why it was also internally known as the “Shell Update Release”. NT 4 had been released to manufacturing on July 31.
As it happens, Windows 95 itself was launched exactly one year earlier, on August 24, 1995. Codenamed “Chicago” and originally planned to be called “Windows 4”, Windows 95 went through a long, iterative development process during which the desktop shell changed dramatically.
Various unfinished versions leaked...
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