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Another year, another operating system. (Microsoft Windows NT 4.0)(Column)

Industrial Distribution, October, 1996 by Harper, Doug

NT 4.0 is powerful, fast and robust, but costly So you were one of those fanatics who queued up on Aug. 24 last year at your local computer center to purchase a copy of Microsoft's much-ballyhooed Windows 95 operating system the first day it was sold. And for more than a year now you've had that gratifying feeling that you're on the cutting edge of operating system technology.

Believe it or not, it's time to head back to your software vendor, because Windows NT 4.0 is now available and the experts predict it is the operating system that Windows 95 should have been and wasn't. In fact, at some point in the lengthy gestation period that produced Windows 95, the powers at giant Microsoft stopped billing it as a corporate computing environment and started...

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