Microsoft is working to fix a bug in Windows NT that gives users unrestricted access to corporate networks. Karen Khanna, product manager for NT security, said the privilege elevation attack only works when trying to access the system internally.
The managing director of a UK equipment vendor has predicted the demise of Windows NT in favour of the free Linux operating system. John Brittain Adams, managing director at Mintra - Cobalt's UK distributor - claimed: "Windows NT will be...
Computer terminals have replaced human tellers in two US banks as part of a pilot scheme run by Wells Fargo. The University of Washington and The University of Nevada have opened the first 'cyber-branches', using computer terminals to access the...
Windows NT has not supplanted Unix and Netware, according to IDC. The report claims Novell's Netware is mainly used for similar functions, but its users claim Netware's strength and reliability mean they have not adopted Windows NT.
There's been a general disappointment with Windows NT as an enterprise operating system and that's fuelled the market for Unix, according to Doug Michels, CEO of Unix vendor, SCO. Where a few years ago people in the universities might have been...
The university had been running a disparate mix of Microsoft Windows NT domains, Novell Netware trees, Active Directory and Unix platforms because De Montfort's network had developed at individual department level.