Chicago (Microsoft)
The development of Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) began around March 1992, just after the release of Windows 3.1x, Windows 3.1 and designed to be the successor to both Windows 3.1 and Microsoft's text-based MS-DOS. At this time, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows NT 3.1 were still in development at Microsoft. Windows 95 was eventually Software release life cycle#RTM, released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995, and generally to retail on August 24, 1995. Background During the initial design and planning of Windows 95 in 1992, Microsoft's strategy was to have a next generation, high-end OS based on Windows NT, namely, Cairo (operating system), Cairo, and a low-end, consumer-focused one as an evolution of Windows 3.1. The latter strategy was to develop a 32-bit underlying kernel and filesystem with 32-bit protected mode device drivers in Windows for Workgroups 3.11, to be used as the basis for the next version of Windows, code named "Chicago". Cairo would be Microsoft's next-ge ...
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