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Microsoft again pushes back .Net Server launch
News IDC recently conducted a survey asking businesses how far along they were in moving to Windows 2000 Server from Windows NT 4 Server. It's the hot-selling product for them on the server side, but it's replacing the huge installed base of Windows NT...
[March 4, 2002, 9:16]
Linux love threatens Microsoft
News Believed to be the first live Linux installation in the financial sector, the firm chose RedHat Linux over Windows NT for its 290 branch network servers because of the operating system's price and efficiency.
[August 19, 1999, 10:48]
Ageing Applications and Windows 7 Compatibility
Blog Most application in use today that were shipped pre-Windows 2000 would have been targeted for Windows NT 4 or 3.51 and may have dependencies on 16-bit components or the NT driver model. I still maintain that most applications will work under...
[September 22, 2009, 14:27]
Oracle wades into open source forum
News Torvalds said he saw Linux as a competitor to Windows NT and even Windows 98 over time, although he offered no specifics. Meanwhile, Netscape vice president John Paul said Linux has the most momentum of all the operating systems, despite Microsoft...
[November 11, 1998, 9:23]
A Year Ago: Microsoft deploys Linux watchers...
News By contrast, Windows NT's share was essentially flat, at about 36%. In recent months, though, Linux has been embraced by many big computer companies, and competes with Microsoft's Windows NT operating system on midsize machines called servers.
[May 22, 2000, 7:02]
Guy Kewney: Bill is picking up penguins
News You'll find, I bet, that the experience of marrying up to a Novell server that is looking for 32-bit NetWare clients, is actually easier with Windows 2000, than it is with earlier versions of Windows like Win 98 or Win NT 4.0, even though they...
[December 27, 1999, 6:50]
Alternatives to Windows' standard desktop lockdown features
News While I think that WINSelect is fine for Windows 9x and Windows Me systems, I would avoid using it on Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems because it is unable to disable the [CTRL][ALT][DELETE] key combination in these operating systems.
[May 28, 2003, 11:35]
MoleBox standard
Downloads MoleBox utility requires Windows 95 OSR2/NT 4 or later, Windows 2000/XP is recommended. Packed application will work under Windows 95/NT 4 or better systems. MoleBox packs an application and all of its data files into a single exe-file.
[December 17, 2008, 7:45]
IBM sees new AS/400 as e-commerce server
News In the first three months of 1998, IBM will add Net.Commerce, templates that allow electronic stores to be quickly set up; a 100 Per Cent Pure Java Virtual Machine; and integrated versions of Lotus Domino and Windows NT.
[August 18, 1997, 14:01]
Crackers deface Burger King Web site
News According to the German-based Web page defacement archive Alldas.de, the Burger King site functions using the Windows NT operating system. Alldas reports that 51 percent of all defacements occur on Windows NT systems, while Linux systems follow on...
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Court ruling could make Microsoft bolder than ever
News Less than 10 percent of Windows 95, 98 and NT desktops were upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional, and less than 5 percent of Windows NT Servers made the switch to Windows 2000 Server, according to research firm Gartner.
[June 29, 2001, 9:04]
Credit card theft feared in Windows flaw
News Initially, the company made patches available for Windows NT 4, Windows NT 4 Terminal Server, Windows XP and Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Microsoft late on Wednesday said that a flaw in its Windows operating system could allow hackers to gain...
[September 9, 2002, 10:56]
Linux users to get RealOne port
News We go right back to Windows 95, but Microsoft only goes back as far as Windows 98, and the is no support in Windows NT 4.0 for DRM. Fraser cited the case of Granada TV, where many staff use Windows NT 4.0 on the desktop and so cannot view the paid...
[October 29, 2001, 16:58]
A Year Ago: Compaq's Digital buyout is IT's biggest yet
News We are committed to supporting these key customer relationships by investing in Digital's strategic assets, particularly its worldwide service organisation, as well as its 64-bit leadership with Alpha microprocessors, OpenVMS, Digital Unix, and...
[January 25, 1999, 6:25]
Compaq's Digital buyout is IT's biggest yet
News We are committed to supporting these key customer relationships by investing in Digital's strategic assets, particularly its worldwide service organisation, as well as its 64-bit leadership with Alpha microprocessors, OpenVMS, Digital Unix, and...
[January 26, 1998, 12:08]
Microsoft releases anti-Slammer tools
News The utility inspects computers running the Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows XP operating systems. On computers running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the utility stops and disables the affected database services.
[February 6, 2003, 15:02]
Scripting - the basics
News Another example of script use might be a situation where you want to have each Windows NT server create a new Emergency Restore Disk and then copy the contents of that disk to a network location. Windows NT allows scripts to be run automatically...
[March 11, 2003, 9:18]
Linking Unix and Windows 2000, the Microsoft way
News It lets a Windows NT or 2000 server act as a Unix client that is capable of accessing a predetermined set of resources. The NFS client allows Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP workstations (or servers) to access an NFS share point.
[December 24, 2002, 22:21]
Flaw discovered in Symantec firewall
News Raptor Firewall 6.5 for Windows NT Raptor Firewall V6.5.3 for Solaris Symantec Enterprise Firewall 6.5.2 for Windows 2000 and NT Symantec Enterprise Firewall V7.0 for Solaris Symantec Enterprise Firewall 7.0 for Windows 2000 and NT VelociRaptor...
[August 6, 2002, 11:48]
A Year Ago: Microsoft No 2 sounds alarm to MS managers
News Its path toward unifying Windows NT and Windows 9x has been rocky, he acknowledged. Gates acknowledged that Microsoft may have prematurely moved almost all of its Windows 9x developers onto NT. The problems with its plans to move to a unified NT...
[February 22, 1999, 11:55]
