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Apparently backing it up with data is frowned upon. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? Don't forget your umbrella while you're raining on his parade. :) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: Well now you can have mine weather you want them or not: - Vastly improved GUI (bye bye ProgMan & FileMan) - Plug-N-Play - Power Management (you can finally use this thing on a laptop) - AD - MMC - EFS - Dynamic Disks - Fat32 support - USB support - UDF support (DVDs!) - WFP - WMI - WDM introduced (Finally Win2K device driver development became an equal citizen for developers) - Quotas -Legit DirectX - WSH - Group Policy -Offline Files -RDP/Terminal services in base edition -DFS While each new version of Windows has a laundry-list of new features, and there are a bunch of other ones in Win2K I didn't list (MSMQ, etc...), that subset I just listed are ones that made a significant tangible difference in the experience to me.... Major improvements. And the thing was pretty darn fast and stable. Heck I ran betas 1-3 for a year or better before release and they were pretty rock solid. I'd argue Win2K may have been the single most significant release since NT was born. -sc From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? I thought 2K was sh!t. I've had everyone else's thoughts on this already though. But I still hate it. :-) ---Blackberried ________________________________ From: "Steven M. Caesare" <scaes...@caesare.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:40:08 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? > 2000 not so good Wait, what? -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? Maybe everyone's just pensive because Microsoft have a habit of following good OSes with bad. NT4 good - 2000 not so good - XP/2003 good - Vista/Server 2008 pants - 7/Server 2008 R2 good - 8 ? On 5 March 2012 20:00, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: As an enterprise, I'm very concerned about the learning curve, too. But at some point, you have to finally break away from the past even if it involves a steep learning curve. The jump from DOS to Win3x required quite a bit of retraining, as did the jump from Win3x to Win95. Both of those were fairly radical moves, and things have stayed relatively static since Win95 with the old familiar Start button in the lower-left corner. Maybe it's time for a big shift. John From: Dan Bartley [mailto:bartl...@corp.netcarrier.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? I have to say my initial reaction is good for tabs. Like John, I can't wait to see some of the new tablets. As for Enterprise, I don't see Win8 making its mark if it stays the current course. In fact I have a feeling it will go the way of Vista in the Enterprise. It is too limiting and non-intuitive. It requires a complete retraining for users and very few IT people have the time for that. The CP also lacks some key domain support at the moment, such as in the printer and file sharing areas, so maybe next version I will change my mind. Then again, they really ditched the enterprise in Windows Phone in my opinion, so maybe they won't improve on that. Best Regards, Dan Bartley ~ 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
