The operating system was publicly demonstrated for the first time at COMDEX in October 1991. The project was commonly referred to as Advanced Windows in the press before its final name was unveiled. However, with the high sales success of Windows 3.0, Microsoft changed the NT OS/2 plans to turn it into a 32-bit version of Windows with a subsystem to run existing OS/2 apps, which largely contributed to the end of the IBM-Microsoft partnership. Microsoft initially developed NT with the intention to use it as the base for OS/2 3.0, with the project being also known as NT OS/2 or Portable OS/2.
Several update packages were released for NT 3.1 during its lifetime.
It was succeeded by Windows NT 3.5 in 1994, and is the first version of Windows NT to support upgrade paths to Windows NT 4.0. The name NT officially stands for "New Technology", although it has also been explained to stand for N-Ten, the codename for the Intel i860 processor that NT was originally designed for. It had a very similar interface to Windows 3.1 but unlike Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.1 was a complete 32-bit operating system while Windows 3.1 was mostly a constrictive 16-bit environment, although it also included 32-bit components to take advantage of the 386 processor. Windows NT 3.1 (codenamed Razzle) is the first version of Windows NT.
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