| 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 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 Server (IIS), for a Windows system that plans to serve Web pages.
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