Windows 7: Windows XP turns 11, still not dead yet

   Quote: Originally Posted by Wiki

Windows NT 3.1 (Microsoft marketing wanted Windows NT to appear to be a continuation of Windows 3.1) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.[5] Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3.1's replacement (Windows 95, codenamed Chicago), which would unify the two into one operating system. This successor was codenamed Cairo.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP—albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system’s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Parts of Cairo have still not made it into Windows as of 2009 - specifically, the WinFS file system, which was the much touted Object File System of Cairo. Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista[6] and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

   Quote: Originally Posted by King Arthur

The first NT family of Windows was Windows NT 3.1 while Windows ME was the last of the Windows 9x family.

My apologies if I came off as a smarty pants, I just wanted to correct your information for the benefit of future readers.