Ghosts of Windows past

Windows 3.0 made good use of 386 CPU hardware, but it was a GUI shell, not an OS.

The upgraded File Manager was one of the highlights of Windows 3.1.

The best we could say about NT Advanced Server was that it showed promise as an application server platform.

Windows 95 introduced the nesting Start menu and bundled system tools.

NT 4.0 integrated Windows 95 elements such as the Network Neighborhood.

Windows 98s Active Desktop allowed users to view Web content.

Active Directory made Windows 2000 both compelling and formidable.

Windows XP was a security step forward, but XP SP2 was a leap.

The changes we saw in IIS 6.0, part of Windows Server 2003, represented a complete re-think of Microsofts former features-first security architecture.