It's time to bring back Windows NT
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It's time to bring back Windows NT
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Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#2I know a few old time Windows IT people, when they mention NT it's usually in the same sentence as a cuss word.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#3What the author is really saying is "Drop metro and brand the resulting product NT". It's broadly what everyone else in corporate IT has been saying since Metro (or whatever it's now called) was announced. It reflects the fact that touch screen interfaces and twitter feeds are redundant for people who use windows for work. I agree with the premise, but the article is quite a long winded way of saying it.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#4Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#5I agree with this article, but I think the way they suggest fixing it is over-kill.
What they're proposing is to have a new SKU for businesses/schools/etc. But having a new SKU will be expensive. More to maintain. More to market. More DVDs to ship. More QA. And so on. There is no way to view a new SKU such that it SAVES money.
What I would like to see is for Microsoft to keep the same number of SKUs but to give consumers more choice. Windows 2008 and 2012 Server come with two modes of installation - core and standard.
The issue with Windows 8 in particular is not that it has Metro ("modern"), it is that they forced people to use it. If they had just allowed people to install the Windows client in a "business" mode, people would have been happy.
So maybe Windows 9 needs a client equivalent of "core" mode. Essentially cut away all of the crud until you're left with a Windows 2000-like desktop experience, no thrills, no fun, just the absolutely basics of what Windows is.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#6Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of.
I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment.
It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#7I know a few old time Windows IT people, when they mention NT it's usually in the same sentence as a cuss word.
For a long time, NT stood for "Not Tested".
Remember that Windows NT used to crash after 49.71 days when the uptime counter overflowed. Most people never noticed this because the server would crash for other reasons long before that.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#8Microsoft will never do this now that Paul has written the idea down in public, at least not with the NT name. No manager in Microsoft will push to reuse the NT brand and risk being called out on getting the idea from Paul Thurrott.
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#9Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
My clients will once Unixy programmers port over all the productive applications they rely on to *nix/bsd. Get working!
Re: It's time to bring back Windows NT
#10Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of. I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment. It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
What do you think OSX is based on?