The original intention was to release a PowerPC edition of NT 3.5, but according to Microsoft's David Thompson, "we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware".
原计划是发布NT 3.5的PowerPC版，但微软的大卫·汤普森称，“我们实际上闲了近9个月，在等IBM完成Power PC硬件的同时修复bug”。