Editing Windows NT 3.1 (section)

=== Release ===
Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server (so numbered to associate them with [[Windows 3.1]]) were released on July 26, 1993.<ref name="ZacharyShowstopper"/>{{rp|page=300}} At first, only the x86 and MIPS versions shipped; the DEC Alpha version followed in September.<ref name="thurrott" /><ref name="IW20Sep1993_S3">{{cite journal | last1=Johnston | first1=Stuart J. | last2=Barney | first2=Doug | title=NT version for Alpha chip poised to ship to users | journal=InfoWorld | volume=15 | issue=38 | date=1993-09-20 | pages=3 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8zoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref> Microsoft sold the workstation version for {{US$|long=no|495}}, and the server version for {{US$|long=no|1495}}. Ostensibly, the server price was meant to be a promotional discount offered only during the first six months of sale, but they never raised the retail price to the listed one—{{US$|long=no|2995}}.<ref name="IW31May1993_S1">{{cite journal | last=Mace | first=Scott | title=NT keeps client/server apps waiting: Database servers will be ready as soon as Microsoft ships delayed OS | journal=InfoWorld | volume=15 | issue=22 | date=1993-05-31 | pages=1 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1}}</ref><ref name="IW19Sep1994_S5">{{cite journal | last=Barney | first=Doug | title=Microsoft set to ship Windows NT 3.5: Will bolster push into enterprise with SMS release | journal=InfoWorld | volume=16 | issue=38 | date=1994-09-19 | pages=5 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jDgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5}}</ref> 250 programmers<ref name="IW24May1993_S92">{{cite journal | last=Hixson | first=Amanda | title=Aiming for the high end: An Interview with Paul Thatcher, Microsoft's Windows NT product manager | journal=InfoWorld | volume=15 | issue=21 | date=1993-05-24 | pages=92 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PTsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92}}</ref> wrote 5.6 million [[lines of code]];<ref name="ZacharyShowstopper"/>{{rp|page=290}} the development cost {{US$|long=no|150 million}}.<ref name="ZacharyShowstopper"/>{{rp|page=307}} In the last year of development, the team fixed more than 30,000 bugs.<ref name="ZacharyShowstopper"/>{{rp|page=300}}

During the product's lifecycle, Microsoft published three [[service pack]]s: Service Pack 1 was released on October 8, 1993; Service Pack 2 followed on January 24, 1994; and Service Pack 3's release date was October 29, 1994. The service packs were distributed on CD-ROM and floppy disk, and also through [[bulletin board system]]s, [[CompuServe]], and the [[Internet]]. Microsoft terminated support for the operating system on December 31, 2000. Support for Windows NT 3.1 RTM (without a service pack) ended on January 8, 1994. Service Pack 1 support ended on April 24, 1994, and finally, Service Pack 2 support ended on January 29, 1995, only 1 year after general availability.

Windows NT 3.1 was localized into various languages. Besides English, it was available in Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. The version for workstations, but not Windows NT 3.1 Server, was additionally available in Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.<ref name="mslocale">{{cite web |title=Older Versions of Windows: Windows NT 3.1 |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/ff678782#Win3.1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023012802/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/ff678782#Win3.1 |archive-date=2012-10-23 |access-date=2012-10-23 |website=Microsoft Developer Network}}</ref>