Windows NT 4.0
Dates of Use:
Released June 30th 1996. Microsoft ceased supporting the platform on January 1, 2005 in accordance with their Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.38
Importance of Platform:
Although it offered truncated support of drives and gaming devices, Windows NT 4.0 was the business market targeted contemporary of Win95 designed to run on servers, high end PC’s and workstations.39 A pure 32-bit operating system free of DOS and thereby comparable to UNIX, Windows NT 4.0 was a more stable platform than Win95 and specifically designed to meet the needs of a corporate environment.
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