Windows NT 4.0 is the successor to the Windows NT 3.x release. In this release, the user interface from Windows 95 was integrated, making NT just as easy to use as its consumer counterpart. Internet Explorer was bundled, providing a web browser out of the box. Speed was improved by moving components into kernel-mode, at the expense of security and reliability - changes Windows is suffering from today, and is being reverted. NT 4 was followed up by Windows 2000.
Available releases
- Cairo/Hydra
- 4.0 (current)
- Patches
Screenshots
Release notes
Supports IA-32, Alpha, MIPS, and IBM PowerPC. This was the first version of Windows to bring the Explorer desktop from Windows 95 to the Windows NT line. A preview of this technology was shown as NewShell, installable on top of Windows NT 3.51.
While Windows NT 4.0 sported the look of its consumer counterpart Windows 95 it did not feature Plug-and-Play or some other Chicago technologies.
Information
Product type OSVendorMicrosoftRelease dateMon Jul 29 1996End of life dateSun Jul 09 2006Minimum CPU486Minimum RAM16MBUser interfaceGUIPlatform WindowsDownload count354 (263 for release)Downloads
| | 4.0 Embedded (4.00.1381.204) | English | | 296.79MB | 22 |
| | 4.0 Enterprise Server (4.00.1381.1) | English | | 504.08MB | 28 |
| | 4.0 Enterprise Server (4.00.1381.1) | Japanese | | 622.29MB | 1 |
| | 4.0 Enterprise Server (4.00.1381.1) | Spanish | | 524.5MB | 2 |
| | 4.0 Server (4.00.1381.1) | English | | 421.98MB | 9 |
| | 4.0 Server (4.00.1381.1) | Japanese | | 472.18MB | 5 |
| | 4.0 Server (4.00.1381.1) | Simpl. Chinese | | 383.15MB | 9 |
| | 4.0 Server (4.00.1381.1) | Spanish | | 284.66MB | 28 |
| | 4.0 Terminal Server | English | | 406.7MB | 6 |
| | 4.0 Terminal Server | Spanish | | 413.81MB | 1 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | German | | 325.79MB | 1 |
| | 4.0 Workstation | Czech | | 315.93MB | 4 |
| | 4.0 Workstation | Czech | | 298.71MB | 2 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Danish | | 387.16MB | 0 |
| | 4.0 Workstation | Dutch | | 371.23MB | 2 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Finnish | | 370.08MB | 0 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Italian | | 358.98MB | 2 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Korean | | 315.22MB | 1 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Polish | | 300.9MB | 3 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Portuguese Brazilian | | 388.17MB | 6 |
| | 4.00.1381.1 | Russian | | 311.82MB | 4 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Spanish | | 135.72MB | 5 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Swedish OEM | | 391.42MB | 0 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1) | Swedish VOL | | 391.33MB | 0 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1.chk) | English | | 326.82MB | 8 |
| | 4.0 Workstation (4.00.1381.1.sp1) | English | | 312.06MB | 68 |
| | 4 Workstation SP6 | English | | 327.42MB | 46 |
Comments
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When did Windows NT 4.0 release?
24 August 1996Windows NT 4.0 / Initial release datenull
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