Still on Windows NT
CRM Assist | at | by Mike
It's no secret that Microsoft core will direct a special marketing pitch at Windows NT Server 4.0 users when the company releases its Windows Server 2003 operating system next month, just as it did for Windows Server 2000. And its announcement of the phaseout of support for NT Server 4.0 certainly caused hordes of users to sit up and take notice. Yet despite Microsoft's pushing and prodding, there are legions of Windows NT Server users that aren't ready to move or haven't finished their migrations.
Bob O'Brien, a group product manager in Microsoft's server division, estimates that 35% to 40% of the installed base for the Windows server operating system is using NT 4.0. He bases that in part on a year-old report in which market research firm IDC predicted it would be 33% at the end of last year.