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[Focus]

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The Road to Cairo Goes Through Nashville
Jon Honeyball reports on Nashville, a shell that's part of Microsoft's plans for a unified product that will integrate client-side applications with HTML on the desktop.
 — Jon Honeyball


Wall Data Rumbas onto the Internet
John Enck previews one of the first NT products with fully functional ActiveX controls in Wall Data's Rumba 95 workstation emulation and data access products.
 — John Enck

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Domains, Trust Relationships, and Groups
Ed Tittel and Mary Madden take the difficulty out of understanding and implementing some of NT Server's network administration features.
 — Mary Madden , et al.


Market Analysis: NT’s Impact on Enterprise Accounting Software
Stewart McKie analyses how enterprise accounting vendors interpret NT's impact on the market.
 — Stewart McKie


SMS: Inventory Your Desktop Systems, Part 2
Spyros Sakellariadis guides you through SMS queries, reports, and data manipulation techniques for inventory data in the SMS database. Learn about functionality the manuals only touch on.
 — Spyros Sakellariadis


SQL Server 6.5 Lands on Your System
Brian Moran reports on key functional enhancements for Internet and OLE support, distributed data management, data warehousing, and utilities.
 — Brian Moran


Streamline Database Applications
Ken North explains how you can balance the resources of your clients against the resources of your servers.
 — Ken North


The Lyondell NT Project
David Truncale and Paula Lay explain how an SAP application suite led Lyondell Petrochemical to a visionary NT solution.
 — Paula J. Lay , et al.


Troubleshooting with Microsoft
Nathaniel Bowman of Microsoft's support group helps you troubleshoot SMS.
 — Nathaniel Bowman

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[Editorial]

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Windows NT Server: An Open Platform?
Openness mean choices, interoperability, and lots of competition.
 — Mark Smith

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[Product Reviews]

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AutoCAD Release 13 for Windows NT
AutoCAD is a longtime standard that excels in a new environment.
 — Tim Hill

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[Inside Out]

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Unlock Your Gateway to the Internet
Mark Minasi implements NT 4.0 beta 1 as an Internet gateway that's as fast as a dedicated router.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Bob Chronister answers your NT Registry questions.
 — Bob Chronister

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[News]

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Netscape: Hitting the SuiteSpot
Tim Daniels explores how intranets and the Internet will affect the future corporate-grade business solutions.
 — Tim Daniels

Windows NT Directions
Joel Sloss comments on recent industry developments and their implications.
 — Joel Sloss

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[Interoperability]

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Hard Disk Boot-Time Blues
John Enck explains the gross and disgusting things that happen behind the screens in a multiboot environment.
 — John Enck

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[Enterprising Choices]

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NT’s Distributed Architecture
Jeff Sloman shares Brigham and Women's Hospital's NT solution to a networking problem.
 — Jeffrey Sloman

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[WebDev]

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The Battle for Your Desktop
Tim Daniels introduces this column with a look at new market trends toward Internet-enabled applications.
 — Tim Daniels

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[Small Enterprises]

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Computers and Telephones
Alex Pournelle visits a telephony expo and explores why anyone would want to merge telephones and computers.
 — Alex Pournelle

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[Lab Feature]

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FirePower Powerized MX
FirePower Systems' Powerized MX PowerPC shines under multimedia lights.
 — Joel Sloss


Intergraph StudioZ Workstation
Intergraph StudioZ Workstation opens a movie studio on your desktop.
 — Joel Sloss