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fwd: Microsoft To Ship Second NT 5.0 Beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard Kimble Jr)
Mon Aug 24 12:12:23 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:36:32 -0400
To: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
FYI
- Leonard
>According to InformationWeek Online:
>
>________Microsoft To Ship Second NT 5.0 Beta__________
>Microsoft will begin shipping the second test version of
>Windows NT 5.0 to more than 200,000 beta testers this week,
>the company said yesterday at a technical workshop for
>reviewers and press in Seattle.
>
>The beta, which includes versions of NT Workstation Server,
>and Enterprise Edition, is all but feature-complete, company
>officials claim. One notable exception: Windows Terminal
>Server, while present, will not be tightly integrated with
>Cluster Server or NT 5.0's Active Directory, according to
>Craig Beilinson, product manager for NT Workstation.
>
>Besides Active Directory, NT 5.0 beta two will also include
>the IntelliMirror capabilities that are designed to enable
>the system to keep copies of all of a user's files,
>programs, and configuration on the network server. They also
>enable remote recovery of a crashed system, including
>rebooting and reformatting a damaged hard drive remotely
>over the network. The second beta also includes a new
>Kerberos security system as well as support for up to 64
>Gbytes of memory on some microprocessors.
>
>Microsoft officials say they will issue a third beta of NT
>5.0, probably in the next three to six months. "After the
>first couple of weeks of beta two, we should have some idea
>of when beta three will be released," says Jonathan Perera,
>product manager for NT Server. The company still hasn't
>given a final shipping date for NT 5.0. --Stuart J. Johnston
>
>
>(For more IT news, see InformationWeek Online at
>http://www.informationweek.com)
>
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