Microsoft Windows 2003, Standard Edition Reviews

Bottom Line: Microsoft evolutionary foray into the NOS market continues.  Windows 2003 Standard Ed. gets it right for all the right reasons.  — Microsofts' Windows 2000 had one fatal flaw that was hard to ignore: the native security implementation was-and is-awful.  Not that it isn't relatively easy to lock down a Windows 2000 Server, but the administrator has to actually manually tighten several different settings, leaving amble room for confusion and human error.  Sure Microsoft issued patches to correct the security holes as they were found and exploited by those… read full review »