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Ghosts of Windows past

Ghosts of Windows past
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May 28, 2012
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Ghosts of Windows past

Ghosts of Windows past

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows 3.1

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows NT 3.x

3

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows 95

4

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows NT 4.0

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows 98

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows 2000

7

Active Directory made Windows 2000 both compelling and formidable.


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Ghosts of Windows past – Windows XP

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


Ghosts of Windows past – Windows Server 2003

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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.

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