As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

Some of the most innovative and revolutionary results occur when methods from one field are combined with methods from another. Networked file systems, digital signal processing and graphical user ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

Every few years, technology makers seem all at once to hit on a panacea for problems they think businesses have. In the early 1990s it was "client server" computing, a model of using cheaper computers ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...