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What is Microsoft Windows NT?


Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft. It was designed to be a powerful high-level language-based processor-independent multiprocessing multiuser operating system with features comparable to UNIX to complement workstation versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS until 2001.

The main difference between Windows NT and other versions of Windows is that Windows NT was the first purely 32-bit version of Windows, whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids. Windows NT is a multi-architecture operating system that has run on IA-32, x64, DEC Alpha, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, Itanium, ARMv7, and ARM64 processors, but currently supported versions run on IA-32, x64, ARMv7, and ARM64.

THe first version of Windows NT was released in July 1993. It was designed to be a powerful high-level language-based processor-independent multiprocessing multiuser operating system with features comparable to UNIX to complement workstation versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS until 2001.

The latest version of Windows NT is 23H2 (10.0.22631.3007), which was released on January 9, 2024.

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Posted: 2005-11-1
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