[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“To paraphrase a famous 17th century playwright: Alas, poor
Windows NT, I knew it, Bill: An OS of many blue screens, of most
excellent fancy: It hath borne me on its network a million times;
and now, how abhorred in our collective memory it is!“Whatever you will say about Windows NT, it was a very
successful and prosperous operating system. When Windows 2000 and
Active Directory finally replaced it, many NT-administrator types
longed for simpler times — as when it was appropriately
patched, it was stable, performed well, and was easy to
administrate…”