ALSO CALLED: Microsoft NT, NT, and Microsoft Windows NT DEFINITION: Windows NT is a Microsoft Windows personal computer operating system designed for users and businesses needing advanced capability. NT's technology is the base for the Microsoft successor operating system, Windows 2000. Windows NT (which may originally have stood for "New
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WINDOWS NT DEFINITION (continued): … Technology," although Microsoft doesn't say) is actually two products: Microsoft NT Workstation and Microsoft NT Server. The Workstation is designed for users, especially business users, who need faster performance and a system a little more fail-safe than Windows 95 and Windows 98. The Server is designed for business machines that need to provide services for network-attached computers. The Server is required, together with an Internet server such as Microsoft's Internet Information … Windows NT definition sponsored by SearchWinIT.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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