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echo: nthelp
to: Geo.
from: Chris Robinson
date: 2003-03-31 09:38:56
subject: Re: NT4 obsoleted today 3/26/03

From: Chris Robinson 

Fair point - I'm guessing they've probably thought "well, support ends in a year
or so, so it's not really worth the effort".  Maybe they don't realise
how many people still use NT.

Chris.

"Geo." wrote:

> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:3E840946.5942ACF1{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > Yeh - they should do that.  I'm no expert on what fixing the problem would
> > require but how difficult can it really be?  Win2k is "built on NT
> technology"
> > afterall - just how much did they change "architecturaly"?
>
> In W2K they took part of NT4 and completely rewrote them from scratch to fix
> things they said weren't designed right, one of those was how domains was
> handled, they wanted it to be based on dns.
>
> It was a major rewrite of some sections so I have no problem believing they
> couldn't use the same approach to the fix. But then I'm just suggesting they
> take care of their customers if they don't want to do the work a second
> time.
>
> Geo.

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