I was looking through the release dates of Microsoft's 32-bit and 64-bit desktop operating systems a little earlier. It's hard to believe but we've been running 32-bit operating systems since 1993. At the time of this post that's a full 16 years!
| Product Name |
Version Number |
Release Date |
| Windows NT 3.1 |
3.1 |
July 1993 |
| Windows NT 3.5 |
3.5 |
September 1994 |
| Windows NT 3.51 |
3.51 |
May 1995 |
| Windows NT 4.0 |
4.0 |
July 1996 |
| Windows 2000 |
5.0 |
December 1999 |
| Windows XP |
5.1 |
August 2001 |
| Windows Server 2003 |
5.2 |
March 2003 |
| Windows Vista |
6.0 (Build 6000) |
January 2007 |
| Windows Server 2008 |
6.0 (Build 6001) |
March 2008 |
| Windows 7 |
6.1 (7600) |
October 2009 |
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