Windows system release schedule
1985.11 Microsoft launched Windows 1.0.
1988.10 The employed David Cutler started the development of NT with its previous Digital colleagues.
1989.6 Project group led by Chuk Whitmer began to work in NT graphics. At the beginning, the project team tried to use C to write code, but later because of performance reasons, partial code uses C.
1989.7 The first system completed by the NT project group first use the Intel i860 processor to run.
1990.1 Bill Gates set the main designers together to discuss the importance of running NT on Intel's 386 processors and select a new RISC processor for non-Intel I860. After a month, the first NT special test project team is built.
1990.5 WINDOWS 3.0 release. The code name is Chicago, which has an enhanced program manager and icon system, a new file manager, supports 16 colors, and runs better and faster. This year, the software sold 3 million sets.
1991.5 Microsoft companies disclose some details of NT to their partners.
1992.4 WINDOWS 3.1 released. In the first two months, the sales volume of the software was 3 million, until 1995, the Windows 95 replaced it, it has been maintained as the first operating system.
1992.10 Launches the first beta version of NT.
1992.11 The first Win32 software development Kit is published in Windows NT.
1993.8 Windows NT 3.1 finally released.
1993.10 Microsoft issued the first patch of NT 3.1, which fixes 90 errors.
1993.12 Motorola and Microsoft announced that Windows NT introduced Windows NT into the PowerPC platform. Microsoft speculates that it is equipped with 300,000 sets of NT.
1994.8 NT first released the upgrade version (NT 3.5). The first version of Office for Windows NT contains 32-bit versions of Word and Excel. At the same time, I released BackOffice.
1995.2 The first PowerPC system running NT is launched.
1995.5 Microsoft announced a small but very important upgrade (3.51) to allow NT to be compatible with the upcoming, specifically designed for Windows 95, which makes users feel very surprised.
1995.8 Windows 95 is released, this is the first Windows version that does not require MS-DOS, and is considered to be a user interface is quite a friendly operating system. It includes an integrated TCP / IP stack, coamental network, and long file name support.
1996.8 Windows NT 4 is released with a housing similar to the new 95.
1996.9 Microsoft announced that 64-bit support will be added to the NT 5.0 specialty version.
1996.10 Microsoft announced that NT support on PowerPC will be canceled, but only allow Alpha and X86 as unique remaining options.
1997.9 Microsoft Company's first test version of NT 5.0 in PDC is public.
1998.6 WINDOWS 98 released. The latest Windows version based on the MS-DOS kernel has IE 4.
1999.4 Windows 2000 Beta 3 released.
1999.11 Windows 2000 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is released in the US.
2000.2.17 The release date of the final version of Windows 2000.
2000.3.20 WINDOWS 2000 released in China.
In 2000, 10. Microsoft released the home-oriented Windows Me. 10.25 Windows XP released in 2001.
