On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought 2K was sh!t. I've had everyone else's thoughts on this already >> though. But I still hate it. :-) > > Well now you can have mine weather you want them or not:
Nitpicking: > - Vastly improved GUI (bye bye ProgMan & FileMan) IIRC, the new shell was introduced with NT 4.0, or maybe some kind of option pack to same. > - MMC MMC existed in the NT 4.0 days, although it certainly saw more adoption in NT 5.0. Personally I've never thought MMC was all that awesome. Assembling a bunch of unrelated tools in a purpose-built interface just for the take of having that interface seems fairly pointless to me. > -Offline Files I thought CSC didn't show up until NT 5.1 (XP)? > I’d argue Win2K may have been the single most significant release since NT > was born. I'd tend to agree. NT 5.0 was the first release of Windows that could really be taken seriously in the enterprise. While NT 4.x and earlier did mostly work for most things, they were sufficiently lacking that most other OSes tended to laugh at it, and rightly so. 5.0 was the first time it could really go toe-to-toe with the big boys. Active Directory/Group Policy were a big part of that, but the general improvements in support from MSFT and third-parties was also a big one. It was the first time MSFT really started pushing for broad adoption of the NT platform, and EOL'ing DOS and classic Windows. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
