Windows NT 4.0 Cairo/Hydra

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.

Other Windows Versions:
| 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |



Release notes

Initial Windows NT 4.0 development went under the codename of Cairo and the associated Terminal Services build was under the codename of Hydra.

Cairo included an ambitious set of new technologies including a new user interface, distributed computing, content Indexing, and an object file system. The later features were canceled, and NT 4.0 became a more practical "shell update release". There is only one known build of Cairo.

Todo: Need to rename the files on the server once mirror syncing is in place.

Product type
OS
Vendor
Microsoft
Release date
1995
User interface
GUI
Platform
Windows
Download count
351 (10 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Cairo'' 4.00.1175.1 Server) 4.0 (''Cairo'' 4.00.1175.1 Server) Prerelease English 39.71MB 5
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Hydra'' 4.00.307.1 Terminal Server B1) 4.0 (''Hydra'' 4.00.307.1 TS B1) Prerelease English 266.34MB 0
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Hydra'' 4.00.373.1 Terminal Server B2) 4.0 (''Hydra'' 4.00.373.1 TS B2) Prerelease English 405.19MB 0
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1130.1 Server) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1130.1 Server) Prerelease English 29.12MB 0
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1141.1 Workstation) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1141.1 Workstation) Prerelease English 32.69MB 1
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1234.1 Server B1) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1234.1 Server B1) Prerelease English 103.17MB 0
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1234.1 Workstation B1) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1234.1 Workstation B1) Prerelease English 38.39MB 1
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1314 Workstation B2) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1314 Workstation B2) Prerelease English 240.47MB 1
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1314.1 Server B2) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1314.1 Server B2) Prerelease English 141.39MB 1
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1327.1 Server B2) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1327.1 Server B2) Prerelease English 44.26MB 0
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (''Shell Update Release'' 4.00.1327.1 Workstation B2) 4.0 (''SUR'' 4.00.1327.1 Workstation B) Prerelease English 43.35MB 1

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