Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Delta Guide

Foreword

Windows Server 2003 will be the fifth version of Windows NT—as the operating system used to be called—that I've had to learn to use. Looking back to the first version I used, Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1, I can see that the product has come a long way! In fact, there are almost no similarities between the new version and its ancient ancestor. But looking back to the most recent version, Windows 2000 Server, reveals a less drastic evolution. Sure, there's a lot of new functionality, and some menu options have changed, and so forth, but there's still a lot that's shared between Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server.

That commonality has always been something that has bugged me when I set out to learn a new version of Windows, or ...