You can meet all your computing needs today by choosing a mix of Microsoft® Windows® 95 and Windows NT™ Workstation operating systems within your organization. Both Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 3.51 are designed to deliver a common set of capabilities that all customers need - great application support, ease of use, connectivity, and manageability. Most importantly, both products provide a platform for a new generation of Win32®-based applications that provide new features and greater performance and reliability than today's Win16-based applications. (See the summary of similarities of the two systems, page 4).
Windows 95 is designed to deliver new capabilities and improved reliability - while still providing good performance on mainstream systems and high compatibility with your current Windows and MS-DOS®-based applications and devices. The new capabilities delivered by Windows 95 will enable your organization to reduce its PC support burden, provide you with greater control over the desktop, and make your people more productive. High compatibility and moderate system resource requirements make it possible for you to realize these benefits throughout much of your organization with low migration costs, providing a rapid return on your investment.
Windows NT Workstation is designed to meet your most demanding business needs by exploiting scaleable hardware designs and providing the highest level of reliabiliity and protection possible for your data, applications, and system. This requires greater hardware requirements than Windows 95, and places some limitations on compatibility with existing hardware and software. However, Windows NT Workstation can provide a high return on investment by increasing user productivity and reducing application and system downtime. (See the summary of differences between the two systems, page 5).
Today, Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation share technologies in OLE and networking. In the future, we expect them to will share even more capabilities, including the new user interface, Plug and Play capabilities, OpenGL 3-D API's, and multimedia API's. Due to differences in product cycles, the technologies noted may appear on one product prior to the other, but these differences will be temporary. This means that your investment will be protected by having the ability to run the same Win32®-based applications across both platforms.
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