Microsoft is phasing out Windows NT 4.0, its 5-year-old operating system for businesses. Microsoft on Monday discontinued the server version of NT because of increased demand for its newer replacement ...

The extended support phase for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows NT 4.0 Workstation operating system — which will mark its seventh birthday on July 29 — officially came to an end yesterday, as the company had ...

Twenty years ago tomorrow, July 27, Microsoft launched Windows NT, as Mark Morowczynski of Microsoft's "Ask Premier Field Engineering blog" reminded me this week. NT's not ancient history, in spite of ...

With Internet commerce and a growing global economy, network operating systems are as critical to the nation's economy as highways or water pipes. Unlike roads, though, there are no uniform ...

(Windows New Technology) An earlier 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. Available in client and server versions, Windows NT included built-in networking and preemptive ...

In fact, focusing on those technologies might help explain the familiar cycle of Windows releases, where early versions are problematic and it takes at least two major updates before things settle ...

The source code for Microsoft's original Xbox gaming console and Windows NT 3.5 has leaked, as spotted by The Verge today. The report also confirms that the Xbox leak is authentic, including the Xbox ...

In a nutshell: The source code for Microsoft's original Xbox console has found its way to the Internet along with code for an early version of Windows. The significance of the leaks is negligible, ...

Computing history: Raymond Chen is once again reminding us that back when Windows 95 ruled the software world, coding was a completely different beast. The Win9x user interface eventually made its way ...

Windows 95 launched exactly 20 years ago today, and though the operating system is long dead many of its ideas still live on. In celebration of 95's 20th birthday, we're revisiting our piece on the ...

Eric Traut, one of Microsoft's chief operating system design engineers, gave a fascinating demo (WMV) recently at the University of Illinois, where he talked about where the Windows core is going and ...

It’s been years since many of us have even thought about the first-generation Xbox gaming console. That was Microsoft’s proverbial “foot in the door” into the console gaming market to battle Sony’s ...