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All roads lead to Cairo. On Microsoft's map of the world-with its distinctive NT perspective-that's where we're all heading. Cairo is the not-so-secret code name of the next Windows NT […]

On the road to a distributed and object-oriented NT operating system code-named "Cairo," Jim Allchin had a vision. The Microsoft Business Systems Division vice president worried that the operating system […]

The next wave in directory services will let administrators access and manage applications and network resources. Novell and Banyan are moving in that direction, while Microsoft prepares its own offering. […]

Despite the galloping popularity of Windows 3.1, Microsoft has no plans to enhance its Dos-based Windows 3.x line. The environment is just too fragile. The name DOS will survive, but […]

COMDEX--McAfee Associates Inc. and Seagate Software Inc. are both ensuring their Windows NT management products will continue to maximize NT's potential by working with Microsoft Corp. on NT 5.0. Microsoft, […]

Windows NT 4.0 has barely seen the light of day, and news is already leaking about NT 5.0 (Cairo). Some suggest bypassing NT 4.0 and holding out for Cairo, which […]

OK, so no one has picked up on my idea to market Microsoft executive action figures. Drat. With the release of Exchange Server, we could have released a Jim Allchin […]

NOS vendors plan to port their respective directories to NT by 1997. Network managers struggling to integrate Microsoft Windows NT servers into their enterprise networks may soon have help from […]

Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft Corp.'s already confusing plans for Cairo grew even murkier last week as officials disclosed they were abandoning the highly touted object file system. Company officials-conceding the […]

###Shawn Willett & Jodi Mardesich San Francisco - The next major release of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, code-named Cairo, has been trimmed down and pushed off until 1997, and the […]

Cairo, as you know, is a font on the Macintosh; a city on the river Nile; and the code name for the much-talked-about, long-promised future version of the Windows NT […]

Look out, IS managers: Just when you thought you were getting settled in a 32-bit world, here come mainstream 64-bit operating systems. Microsoft Corp.'s Business Systems division is already at […]

Redmond, Wash. - As Microsoft Corp.'s marketing gurus launch Windows 95 this week amid a swirl of media events and parties, the company's software engineers will hoist nothing stronger than […]

Cairo On Hold? Microsoft makes Windows 95 a priority over NT upgrade Microsoft Corp. seems to be caught in a classic management problem: cannibalizing one project to advance another. According […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.'s plans to provide a set of OLE interfaces with Cairo, the object-oriented operating system slated for 1996, database vendors plan to continue focusing on ODBC for hetergeneous […]

The key to Cairo's power -- and the most far-reaching of the innovations it will introduce -- is a new distributed, object-based file system. Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., demonstrated […]

Acknowledging that industry standards are playing an increasingly important role, Microsoft Corp. is courting partners to develop the Distributed OLE technology for its Cairo advanced operating system. The software giant […]

With Windows NT still at least a month away from delivery, Microsoft Corp. has begun showing Cairo, an object-oriented successor to NT that company officials say will outsell NT on […]

At last, a peek at Cairo. Only months after delivering Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft is offering a glimpse at selected NT 5.0 technologies that may address concerns about the OS's […]

While words such as Galileo, Copland, and Cairo conjure up images of interesting people or far-off places to some, to others they represent shining examples of 1996's broken vendor promises. […]

Chicago, Nashville, Memphis, Cairo--the Windows we want always seems at least a year away and as remote as Timbuktu. And on the verge of '97, that's not about to change […]

Microsoft's plan to add on Active Directory with the arrival of Windows NT 5.0 next year is getting mixed reviews from corporate IS managers. Microsoft's lack of directory software has […]

Microsoft Corp. vowed that its next version of Windows NT Server will reduce the cost of PC ownership but also warned that these features will ship later than originally planned. […]

In its quest to make Windows NT the platform of choice for intranet applications, Microsoft Corp. will continue to erode the distinction between the Web browser and all its other […]

Maynard, Mass. - Now that Microsoft Corp. has unveiled Windows NT Server and NT Workstation 4.0, the computing and communications world is waiting for the next big shoe to drop-namely, […]

Seattle - Microsoft Corp. this fall plans to distribute a preview version of its Windows NT Server 5.0 to developers-just months after rolling out version 4.0. Among the new features […]

The last time Microsoft introduced an operating system, it was the ballyhooed event of the year. But Windows NT 4.0--officially dubbed a 'shell upgrade release'--is nearing a far more modest […]

Microsoft Corp., in a move to eliminate a critical advantage of NetWare over Windows NT, will release this fall a preview version of the enterprise directory planned for the Cairo […]

My gaze was fixed on the high end of the market for much of Comdex. First and foremost was the decision by Microsoft to support 64-bit data in the next […]

For an industry based on rapid innovation, we do a bad job of facing and fixing the fundamental problems with the systems that we offer to trusting users. The latest […]

Microsoft's Mike Nash defends Cairo's directory development plans Nash is Microsoft Windows NT Server group product manager. He was interviewed by Senior Editor Claudia Graziano. Q: What is the time […]

Microsoft Corp. is looking to make Windows NT the hub of the network management universe with a future release that includes a set of management services based on its OLE […]