Windows NT 3.51 to 4.0 - Titane73/IT115-wiki-project GitHub Wiki

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Windows NT 3.51

Windows NT 3.51 is the predecessor of Windows 4.0 it is the last of the Windows NT Family. The operating system was released to power the IBM PowerPC. It was for this reason that it was nicknamed the PowerPC. The new features of the operating system included NTFS file compression, 3D support for OpenGL, TCP/IP optimization and inclusion of text description on mouse pointers. The operating system could support several 32-bit applications at the time. The operating system was based on the Intel 80386 processor. Below is the GUI of Windows NT 3.51

Windows 4.0

Windows 4.0 is the successor to Windows NT 3.51, it was also the last release that supported the IBM PowerPC and other PCs with a similar architecture. Windows 4.0 was also considered part of the NT family and it was the last of the family. It became the peoples choice evident from Microososfts struggle to make users upgrade to Windows 2000 in the later years. Windows 4.0 is considered the pioneer of graphical user interfaces used in later versions of Windows such as Windows 95. The Windows brought. The 4.0 release brought a lot of features with it such as new administrative tools, start menu, shortcuts, folder systems, Server and Domain Management and appearance specialization.

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