Back on Friday 4/17/98, FEED Magazine ran an article about Microsoft's OS dominance (Where do you want to go tomorrow?). The loop got pretty interesting, with discussion diverging from Microsoft OS domination into the more general questions of open code and file formats; the success (and potential threat?) of Linux; and so forth. Good reading.
Two True Undeletes for NT
Executive Software (Diskeeper makers) recently debuted Network Undelete, with a 30-day trialware version available from ExecSoft's web site. $37 will get you the "local" single-user Workstation version on CD. The CD includes "Emergency Undelete", which lets you recover a file from your disk by running the program from the CD (ie, without installing the program, and thus ruining your chances of recovering the deleted file). For more details, see the Network Undelete features page.
And Sunbelt Software is offering a non-network undelete utility, RecoverNT. There is a demo available from their web site that will run 3 times; and you can order it from their web site for $27.50.
While both of these products have their own "recycle bins", so to speak, that will store all deleted files until you purge them (even those deleted outside of Explorer), their real value is in their ability to retrieve "unrecoverable" deleted files from your hard disk drives.
Last Tuesday, 4/21/98, TechWeb (among others) ran the SP4 does NT 5 story. What's the "NT 5" part really mean? DCOM through firewalls, and a configuration manager for security (a snap-in module for MMC).
Of course, SP4 will also include all the post-SP3 hotfixes (fully a year's worth!), an updated Option Pack, and of course, IE 4.01 will be thrown in for good measure (hopefully they'll include SP1 for IE4.01 as well).
For future reference:
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Microsoft NT Service Pack Download page
Microsoft NT Service Pack Order (CD) page
(about $20 again, probably)
Microsoft Personal Web Server page
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