You, nitpick? NO??
> IIRC, the new shell was introduced with NT 4.0, or maybe some kind of option pack to same. That was an alpha/beta level "shell preview", and not released code. I used it.. it was buggy in several aspects, although it got better over time. I don't recall that it ever was _REELASED_ for NT4.0. You actually could run it on 3.51. > MMC existed in the NT 4.0 days, although it certainly saw more adoption in NT 5.0 Actually yes... you could get it as an "Option Pack" for 4.0... IIRC it actually grew out of the development effort for Win2K, and was "back ported" prior to release. The first OS it actually shipped with was Win2K, which as you mentioned is where it was really "the default" method for many management tasks and widely used. > I thought CSC didn't show up until NT 5.1 (XP)? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742423.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline_files#Offline_Files -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? 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 ~ 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
