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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by peteforde on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:29AM (#38742590)
My version of this was the realization that Windows NT Server was not any more suited to being a server, at least not due to any inherent magic.

NT Server was something MSFT could market to enterprise customers for big dollars. It did have meaningful tools for Active Directory and administering a Domain... but if you're a person and not an IT department, it's a safe bet that you'd end up using exactly zero of those tools.

TL;DR: they could have named it Expensive Corporate Seat Licencing Edition.

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by teh_klev on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:33AM (#38742881)
Minor nitpick...Active Directory didn't appear until Windows Server 2000.
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by peteforde on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:09AM (#38752286)
Busted! My life is a lie. :)
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by zh3 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:08AM (#38743988)
There was some differences in the registry settings IIRC, the server version simply came with fewer restrictions on the IP stack (i.e. with a bit of regedit hacking, standard NT worked just as well as NT server). There might have been things like needing the server version of SQL Server as well.
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by peteforde on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:12AM (#38752299)
That actually sounds familiar (the SQL server part).

I feel like perhaps they went through awkward contortions of releasing kid glove versions of MSSQL for a while, too. At least before eventually realizing that mySQL was at least as much an existential threat as Oracle was.

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