Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.

Windows Vista was released on 8 November 2006 to business customers, consumer versions following on 30 January 2007.

Screenshot of the new Windows 8 Start Screen

Windows 8 is the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows.

Windows RT, a special version of Windows 8, runs on system-on-a-chip devices with mobile ARM processors.

Windows 8 features a redesigned user interface, designed to make it easier for touchscreen users to use Windows.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

Windows 8 will ship with three editions and one edition called Windows RT will only be pre-installed on ARM tablets.

* Windows 8

* Windows 8 Pro

* Windows 8 Enterprise

Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate were both released on May 31, 2012.

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012.

Microsoft has said that Windows Server 2012 was available on 4 September 2012 and Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012.

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

It is included in most Windows Server operating systems.

Then Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003.

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.

* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.

* CNG API in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with managed wrappers for CNG in. NET Framework 3. 5

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

* Windows NT 4. 0 Server

* Windows NT 4. 0 Server, Enterprise Edition ( includes support for 8-way SMP and clustering )

* Windows NT 4. 0 Terminal Server

Amongst Windows 2000's most significant new features was Active Directory, a near-complete replacement of the NT 4. 0 Windows Server domain model, which built on industry-standard technologies like DNS, LDAP, and Kerberos to connect machines to one another.

The first public preview of Windows Server 2012 was also shown by Microsoft at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

After a 18-month beta program, EditShare released Lightworks 11 for Windows only on the 28th of May, 2012.

An HD version is planned for release in October 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

On April 16, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player would not be included in Windows RT, the line of Windows designed to run on ARM based devices.

* Anna is a 2012 video game for Microsoft Windows.

As of January 2012, a spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed that Cutler is no longer working on Windows Azure, and has since joined the Xbox team.

HP announced plans on March 2011 for a version of webOS by the end of 2011 to run within the Microsoft Windows operating system to be used in HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012.

The first Windows NT-based operating system to receive AGP support was Windows NT 4. 0 with service pack 3, introduced in 1997.

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

** Windows NT and successors have various subsystems to run legacy applications.

* The Solaris API for handling access control lists ( ACLs ) is supported and maps to the Windows NT ACL system.

Cygwin began in 1995 as a project of Steve Chamberlain, a Cygnus engineer who observed that Windows NT and 95 used COFF as their object file format, and that GNU already included support for x86 and COFF, and the C library newlib.

BIND was ported to the Windows NT platform in the early 1990s.

Operating systems that supported Alpha included OpenVMS ( previously known as OpenVMS AXP ), Tru64 UNIX ( previously known as DEC OSF / 1 AXP and Digital UNIX ), Windows NT ( until 4. 0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1 ), GNU / Linux ( Debian GNU / Linux, Gentoo Linux and Red Hat Linux ), BSD UNIX ( NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD up to 6. x ), as well as the L4Ka :: Pistachio kernel.

* Installable File System ( IFS ) – a filesystem API for IBM OS / 2 and Microsoft Windows NT

For example, EDLIN in early MS-DOS versions and 32-bit versions of Windows NT has a somewhat similar syntax, and text editors in many MUDs ( LPMud and descendants, for example ) use ed-like syntax.

However, Edlin is included in 32-bit versions of Windows NT, since NTVDM's DOS support is based on MS-DOS version 5. 0.

FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

The Windows NT family started with Windows NT 3. 1 in 1993.

Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel that was originally intended for OS / 2.

Microsoft is also working to bring Windows NT onto ARM in the next release of Windows.

With Windows NT 4. 0 in 1996, the shell changed from Program Manager to Windows Explorer.

IBM continued to develop OS / 2, while Microsoft changed the name of its ( as yet unreleased ) OS / 2 3. 0 to Windows NT.

Both retained the rights to use OS / 2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement ; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently ( see below ).