Nxtrosoft Winders/History

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Nxtrosoft Winders Nxtrosoft

Winders 1.01, aka **Power Winders**, was released on April 9, 1984. It was originally made in collaboration with ITE for use on the latter's lower-end computers as a more user-friendly GUI for NX-DOS powered by Power/IT, hence the name of the operating system.

The next versions of Winders, released in 1986 and 1987 respectively, were Winders/286 for n286 and Winders/386 for n386, often called Winders 2.0 and Winders 3.0.

### Everything at your fingertips

Main articles: Winders 96, Winders 97, Winders 97 Second Edition
## An advance in technology

Main articles: Advanced Winders, Winders NT
### New technology in every home

Main articles: Winders 2000, Winders NT Home Edition
### On the fly

Main articles: Winders XT, Winders 2002, Winders XT, Version 2003
Having Winders NT Home Edition released in 2000, Nxtrosoft could begin full-time working on the next operating system, codenamed *Wheatley*, which would finally unite the two families of Winders: the home-oriented Winders 9x and Winders NT for use on servers and workstations.

Despite the plans of Nxtrosoft to release *Wheatley Server* with the same codebase as Winders XT, since its release many vulnerabilities were discovered and the press started to dissect Winders XT's security features. It was found that it hardly had any protection against malware and was described as a "torn sieve for viruses".

This pushed Nxtrosoft to postpone the release of *Wheatley Server* from August 24, 2001 to an unspecified date in 2002. Nxtrosoft then focused heavily on improving the security of the operating system.

#### The *Winders 2002* era

The year 2002 ultimately saw the release of Winders 2002 on April 30 as the final "Winders Server Family"-branded release.

Due to the number of changes to the core system, Nxtrosoft decided to develop *Wheatley + 1* as a revised version of Winders XT with enhanced security and reliability. It was ultimately released as Winders XT, Version 2003 in 2003. The higher hardware requirements of Version 2003 sparked a need for a more lightweight version of Winders XT, Version 2003, which was released the same year as Winders Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, Version 2003.

### Laying out the new foundations

Main articles: Winders Avalon, Winders 2002 R2, Winders Mojave
Even before the release of Winders XT, Nxtrosoft had already planned a roadmap of future releases of Nxtrosoft Winders:

* *Wheatley*, later released as Winders XT in March 2001;
* *Wheatley Client SP1*, released simultaneously with *Wheatley Server*;
* *Wheatley + 1*, a *major inflection point* released in 2003, 18-24 months after *Wheatley*;
* *Blackbird*, released in 2004/2005, 18-24 months after *Wheatley + 1*.

On May 30, 2001, the roadmap was modified:

* mentions of *Wheatley* were changed to Winders XT;
* *Wheatley + 1* was split into the already existing project and *Mojave*, the next major release of Winders after Winders XT;
* *Blackbird* was delayed and instead placed as a successor to *Mojave*.

Having released *Wheatley Server* as Winders 2002 in 2002, Nxtrosoft began fully working on *Mojave*, with early development builds being released months before the release of *Wheatley Server*.

#### Development hell of *Mojave*

By 2003, *Mojave* was getting more and more features originally planned for *Blackbird*, which created a risk of not only significantly delaying the release date, but even being reset and started from scratch. As with each build the operating system began being less and less reliable and responsive, in January 2004 Nxtrosoft decided to componentize the operating system to make it more stable.

The process started in May 2004, in which the upcoming features, such as the rewritten system applications, were separated into a separate branch to finish them while the main team was in the process of limiting the amount of dependencies of lower-level-APIs on higher-level-APIs. The process was set to be finished in October, and as the original release date of *Mojave* began moving closer, Nxtrosoft decided to split the development of *Mojave* into two operating systems, one which would be released in 2004, and the second that would be the finished *Mojave*.

The split was announced on August 3, 2004 and became effective on October 2, 2004, when the componentization process was finished and the main team began reincorporating the separated features back into the newly-created *[Avalon codename]* branch. The team that was tasked with finishing the new applications was split: the first group would assist the main team in reincorporating the new features into the release branch, and the second group would start working on *Mojave*.

Ultimately, with little to no testing done, the *[Avalon codename]* branch was released as Winders Avalon on November 8, 2004.

### The era of modern Winders

Main articles: Winders Mojave, Winders Server 2007, Winders Fiji