NTDEV, the developers of Tiny11, have pushed their Windows tweaking skills to new limits to create the tiniest version of Windows 11 yet. Unfortunately, the operating system only works marginally, but it's still capable of multitasking and has partial support for batch commands.

After creating a minimally functional Windows 11 modification through the Tiny11 project, NTDEV is trying to do something different with the latest Microsoft operating system. Based on an idea suggested by a fan, the developer wanted to know how small he could make Windows 11 and still have it boot.The result of NTDEV's experiment was a Windows image less than 100 megabytes in size, a barely runnable operating system that abandoned a graphical user interface or any other graphical elements and returned to its text-only roots. Microsoft abandoned text prompt-based mode in Windows 95, but Windows 11 still seems to be Windows, even if it has turned into a slow-moving text shell.NTDEV drew inspiration from an old Microsoft project called "MinWin", which created a simple, self-contained set of Windows Vista (and later Windows 7) components that served as the "core" user interface. NTDEV named this new mode "NT-DOS". Viewers believed that this naked text shell was what Windows Server should have looked like from the beginning."NT-DOS" mode starts with a minimal shell that can only be operated through prompt commands. Despite supporting some basic batch files, this stripped-down version of the operating system is still a Windows operating system and even offers some multitasking features.NTDEV has been making tweaks and modifications to Windows for some time. This developer used Tiny11 to compress a standard Windows 11 installer (64GB) down to just 2GB, installing the OS on a 4GB USB flash drive (Live11) and running it within the framebuffer of a GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. Winception experiments push nested Windows virtualization to unprecedented limits.Unlike Tiny11, there is no public version available for download for NT-DOS. The NTDEV blog explains that its projects are chosen by developers who understand the inner workings of the Windows operating system family and are "completed out of boredom." Tiny11 and Tiny10 are the most "user-friendly" products NTDEV has ever made, and both are available as public downloads for those interested in trying out the latest Windows versions without the "overly cumbersome" standard installation.