Opinion: Microsoft shouldn't seek to bury the still-beloved NT 4.0. It should simply open-source it.
To paraphrase a famous 17th-century playwright: Alas, poor Windows NT, I knew it, Bill: An OS of many blue screens, of most excellent fancy: It hath borne me on its network a million times; and now, how abhorred in our collective memory it is!
Whatever you will say about Windows NT, it was a very successful and prosperous operating system. When Windows 2000 and Active Directory finally replaced it, many NT-administrator types longed for simpler times—as when it was appropriately patched, it was stable, performed well and was easy to administrate.
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