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Network World Fusion: Ballmer: NT 5.0 not enough

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 1998

In a keynote at NetWorld+Interop, Ballmer said Microsoft still
has considerable work after it ships NT 5.0 next year to give it
the sort of mainframe- and Unix-like reliability and manageability
users increasingly demand.

… he cited one Microsoft customer that automatically re-boots
a particular server every four weeks because otherwise, the server
will begin to bog down. Yet neither it nor Microsoft has been able
to figure out what exactly is causing the problem.

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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