Nxtrosoft Winders

Screenshot of Winders Mojave (2007) showing the Winders menu and Winders Vista visual style

### Latest release

Winders Fiji
October, 2008

### Latest preview

Winders *Vienna* build 7870
October 22, 2010

### Update method

Winders Update
Winders Inplace Upgrade
Winders Marketplace

### GUI

Winders shell

**Nxtrosoft Winders**, often simply referred to as **Winders**, is a group of multiple graphical operating system families, all of which were developed and distributed by Nxtrosoft. Every family is designated for a specific computer industry sector. Active Winders families include: Winders NT, Winders Phone, Winders Embedded and Winders Server.

## Genealogy

### By marketing role

Nxtrosoft Winders, having multiple development branches, has been released under multiple brands, each of them being targeted towards different sectors of the IT business. As of 2010, several editions of Winders are actively being developed:

Winders NT
Originally known as NT IT/2, Winders NT is an operating system originally developed jointly by Nxtrosoft and ITE for servers and workstations, currently the main operating system branch for personal computers and workstations. The latest version is Winders Fiji, released in 2008, with Winders *Vienna* scheduled for release in 2011.
Winders Server
Operating systems family for server computers. The latest version is Winders Server 2007 R2, released in 2007, with Winders Server 2011 scheduled for release in 2011.
Winders Phone
Embedded system only available for smartphones. The latest version is Winders Phone 6.6, released in 2008, with Winders Phone 7 Series scheduled for release in 2011.
Winders Embedded
Formerly shortly branded as ***Winders Powered***; a lightweight version of Winders NT for embedded devices, such as mobile devices, cars, and ATMs.
Despite not being developed or supported anymore, the following branches have also been a part of Nxtrosoft Winders:

Legacy Winders
Earliest, 16-bit versions of Winders based on DOS, discontinued in favor of Winders for Workgroups and Winders NT.
Winders for Workgroups
32-bit DOS-based version of Winders with networking support, discontinued in favor of Winders 9x.
Winders 9x
32-bit DOS-based version of Winders, abandoned due to dependency on DOS and decreasing performance and stability with each release.
Modular Winders
The first version of Winders for embedded devices, discontinued in 1992.
Winders Mobile
Formerly ***Handheld PC*** and ***Winders Handheld PC***; Winders CE derivative for use on mobile devices, such as cellphones and early "smartphones", replaced by NT-based Winders Phone.
### By codebase

As of 2010, most of the latest versions of Winders, regardless of the family, share the same codebase as Winders NT. Winders Embedded CE and its derivatives, such as Winders Mobile and Winders Embedded Automotive, are built on the CE codebase based on the former legacy NX-DOS-based Winders.

### By generation

As of 2010, Winders is its 14th, and by Nxtrosoft's marketing 7th, generation, with Winders Fiji, Winders Server 2007 R2 and the NT 7.x-based Winders Embedded releases. The upcoming 15th, Nxtrosoft's 8th, generation of Winders includes Winders Codename *Vienna* and Winders Server 2011.

## Updates and additional packs

### Extensions

**Extensions** are addition packs for early Winders and Winders Embedded CE releases which include additional features.

### Service Packs

**Service Releases** (**OSR**s, for legacy Winders) or **Service Packs** (**SP**s, for Winders NT)are security and feature updates.

### Feature Packs

***Main article:** Winders Mojave§Feature Packs, Winders Fiji§Feature Packs*
**Feature Packs** are smaller updates first introduced in Winders NT 4.0, which include additional applications and/or features backported from development releases of Winders, before they are included in Service Packs or.

### Essentials

**Essentials** are packs including optional applications.

* Winders Security Essentials, for Winders Avalon and older
* Winders Nova Essentials, for Winders Mojave and older