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Windows NT is the current line of Windows operating systems developed by Microsoft. This includes:

Windows NT 3.1 through 4.0
Windows 2000 (NT 5.0)
Windows XP (NT 5.1) and Windows Server 2003 (NT 5.2)
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (NT 6.0)
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (NT 6.1)
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (NT 6.2, release planned for October 2012)

...and most likely future versions of Windows as well.

Windows NT does not include Windows 3.x or Windows 9x/Me, none of which were actual operating systems, but rather graphical shells that ran on top of DOS. (Windows NT was developed from the OS/2 codebase.)

For more information, including a more inclusive list of NT versions, see Wikipedia's Windows NT entry.

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 * [[wp:Windows Vista|Windows Vista]] and [[wp:Windows Server 2008|Windows Server 2008]] (NT 6.0)
 * [[wp:Windows 7|Windows 7]] and [[wp:Windows Server 2008 R2|Windows Server 2008 R2]] (NT 6.1)
-* [[wp:Windows 8|Windows 8 and Windows Server 8]] (the next version, apparently NT 6.2, planned for 2012)
+* [[wp:Windows 8|Windows 8]] and [[wp:Windows Server 2012|Windows Server 2012]] (NT 6.2, release planned for October 2012)
 ...and most likely future versions of Windows as well.