Windows NT

On July 27, 1993, Microsoft launched the first version of their proprietary graphical operating system, Windows NT, which was the company's first graphical operating system. It is a multiprocessing and multi-user operating system that is independent of the processor being used.

Windows NT 3.1 was the initial version of Windows NT, and it was designed for use on both workstations and server machines. It was meant to be a complement to the consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS at the time of its introduction (including Windows 1.0 through Windows 3.1x). Slow but steady, the Windows NT family of computer systems was expanded to become Microsoft's general-purpose operating system product line for all personal computers, displacing the Windows 9x family from the market.

The abbreviation "NT" used to stand for "New Technology," but it no longer has any particular significance. "NT" was removed from the product name in Windows 2000, and it is now only seen in the product version string and a few other low-level locations across the system, rather than the product name.

When it came to Windows, NT was the first version to be entirely 32-bit; its consumer-oriented equivalents, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were hybrids of 16 and 32-bit architecture. Operating system with support for many architectures. In the beginning, it supported a number of different instruction set architectures, including IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha; subsequently, it added support for PowerPC, Itanium, x64, and ARM processor architectures. In addition to x86 (including IA-32 and x64), the most recent versions of the software support ARM. Most notable among them are the Windows Shell, Windows API, Native API, Active Directory and Group Policy. Other notable features include NTFS and BitLocker; Windows Store and Windows Update; and Hyper-V, which is a virtualization platform.