Windows NT 1996

Windows NT 1995 (Codenamed "NT Ninety-Five") was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1995. It was the successor to Windows NT 3.5, and brought changes and improvements. Throughout its lifetime, it had 3 service packs released, from SP1 to SP3. Mainstream support for the operating system ended on April 15, 2003 and Extended support ended on April 15, 2005.

History
In late 1993/early 1994 Microsoft was working on the next versions of Windows NT after Windows NT 3.1. They had 2 projects, one, codenamed Windows Daytona, which was planned to be released in mid-late 1994, and another, codenamed "NT Ninety-Five", scheduled for release sometime in early 1995. As development progressed, and Daytona, which became NT 3.5, got closer to release, development teams could focus more on NT Ninety-Five, which would have a lot of improvements, taken from the NT 3.5 codebase, being developed at the same time. After NT 3.5 released in September 1994, development focus shifted to NT Ninety-Five, which was eventually rebranded to Windows NT 1995 in September/October of 1994. Around the same time, some code from the then in development Windows Chicago was added to the NT 1995 project, and a prototype start menu shell was added. When Windows NT 1995 released on March 29, 1995, it came with an revamped version of the prototype start menu, which was closer to the final one used when Windows 95 released later in the same year. From 1996-1998, 3 service packs were released, and extended support ended on April 15, 2005, just over 10 years after the operating system had originally released.

Editions
Windows NT 1995 Standard

Windows NT 1995 Workstation

Windows NT Server 1995

Service Packs

 * Service Pack 1 (July 12, 1996)
 * Service Pack 2 (May 3, 1997)
 * Service Pack 3 (February 2, 1998)

Trivia

 * Similar To The Windows 95 and 98 Bootscreens, In The NT 1995 Bootscreen, it shows the Windows Logo in the Sky, but instead of being daytime, its nighttime
 * This is more similar to the Windows NT 4.0 Logo, which shows the Windows Logo also in a nighttime-like sky, with the upper half being dark with stars, and the lower half being a blue cloudy sky