Editing Windows NT 3.51 (section)

===NewShell===
On May 26, 1995, Microsoft released a test version of a shell refresh, named the ''Shell Technology Preview'', and often referred to informally as "NewShell". This was the first incarnation of the modern Windows GUI with the Taskbar and [[Start menu]]. It was designed to replace the Windows 3.x Program Manager/File Manager based shell with [[Windows Explorer]]-based [[graphical user interface]]. The release provided capabilities quite similar to that of the Windows "Chicago" ([[Microsoft codenames|codename]] for Windows 95) shell during its late beta phases; however, it was intended to be nothing more than a test release.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruley|first=John D.|date=September 1995|title=NT Gets the Look But Not the Logo|url=http://winmag.com/library/1995/0995/09howtoc.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060314223207/http://winmag.com/library/1995/0995/09howtoc.htm|archive-date=March 14, 2006|access-date=September 4, 2009|work=How-To Columns|publisher=WinMag}} Internet Archive</ref> There was a second public release of the Shell Technology Preview, called ''Shell Technology Preview Update'' made available to [[MSDN]] and [[CompuServe]] users on August 8, 1995. Both releases held Windows Explorer builds of 3.51.1053.1. The preview program provided early feedback for the ''Shell Update Release'', the next major Windows NT version with the new interface built-in, which was released in July 1996 as Windows NT 4.0.