The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″>Windows 11 you use today is still identified as “Windows NT” in some ways, and that’s because its lineage extends all the way back to the venerable Windows NT. Version 3.5 is widely considered the most pivotal release for the “New Technology” version of Windows, so today we cast a glance back at Windows’ forebears, as it was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>31 years ago today that Windows NT 3.5 released to the public.
When data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft first announced NT, it wasn’t aimed at the family PC. NT was built for the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise”>enterprise, where Novell…
