1. Bob Muglia Director Business Systems Microsoft Corporation

2. The New World Voyage... Implementation of client-server, open systems, interconnected LANs, and distributed applications... is underway Source: The Computing Strategy Report June 1994. Forrester Research Inc.

3. Windows NT ™ Server Reaches Critical Mass Source: The Computing Strategy Report June 1994. Forrester Research Inc. Estimated units, in thousands

4. Momentum Of Windows NT ™  1994 Merisel Hot List Award for the #1 selling NOS  90% of Fortune 500 companies either evaluating or deploying Windows NT Server  Thirty-six OEMs shipping  7,000 Solution Providers  500 Microsoft Authorized Technical Education Centers

5. Awards: Windows NT Server  PC Magazine Editor’s Choice  PC Week Analyst’s Choice  Software Digest NTSL’s Product Choice  Network Computing Editor’s Choice  BYTE Magazine Award of Excellence  Data Communications Hot Products Award

6. Why Windows NT? Engineered OS  Modular “microkernel” OS  Threads, preemption, async I/O  Secure  Portable, scaleable, extensible  API support  Win32 ®, OLE, WOSA APIs, DCE RPC...  Single API for client and server

7.  3 platforms today  PowerPC ™ in H1 ’95  4500+ hardware systems  1,800+ devices  SMP  Common GUI, API, Tools, etc. across platforms Why Windows NT? Hardware coverage

8. Why Windows NT? Interoperability  Works with existing networks  TCP/IP, IPX/SPX (NetWare), SNA, NetBEUI, OSI...  Works with existing management standards  SNMP, NetView ®, DMTF, OpenView...  Supports major client platforms  Windows ®, Macintosh ®, MS-DOS ®, OS/2...  Client-server APIs  Winsock, RPC, OLE

9. Windows NT Server 3.5 File and print, Comm, and application services File and print, Comm, and application services NetWare 2.x/3.x/4.x File and print services only File and print services only NetWare client (NetX or VLM) (NetX or VLM) Interoperability File and print service for NetWare

10. Why Windows NT? Application environment  1,200+ software applications  Hundreds of development tools  Application building blocks  Examples: Microsoft ® BackOffice, Lotus Notes ®, Oracle, MobileWare, R3, and many more

11. Why Windows NT? Licensing  Licensing model for distributed computing  Windows NT Server supports applications without additional cost  Protocols included: RPC, Winsock, SPX, named pipes, NetBIOS  File, print, dial-in access licensed separately  Concurrent  Per desktop (regardless of how many servers)

12. Windows NT: Road Map Sept 199 4 H1 199 5 199 6 Window NT Workstation3.51 Windows NT Server 3.51 Window NT Workstation3.51 Windows NT Server 3.51 Window NT ™ Workstation3.5 Windows NT Server 3.5 Window NT ™ Workstation3.5 Windows NT Server 3.5 Window NT Workstation“Cairo” Windows NT Server “Cairo” Window NT Workstation“Cairo” Windows NT Server “Cairo”

13. Windows NT 3.51  Release: H1 1995  Support for PowerPC  Features  PCMCIA support  Windows 95 controls, dialogs, and help  Compressed NTFS  OLE performance  Multithreaded OLE (Apartment model)

14. Windows NT “Cairo”  1996 release of Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server  Native OLE file system (OFS)  Content and property queries  Unified filesystem and directory  Single namespace  OLE enhancements  Distributed, security, free threading...  Common user interface with Windows 95  Size and performance improvements

15. Microsoft BackOffice Integrated information system

16. Common Microsoft BackOffice Functionality  High performance and reliable  Graphical remote administration  Leverages Windows NT Security Model for single-user logon  Network transport and client independent  Support clients of MS-DOS, Windows, and Macintosh ®  NetWare, TCP/IP  Support multiple hardware architectures

17. What Makes A Great Server Application?  Great Win32-based application  High performance  Secure  Network-independent  Manageable