Said Jim Fulton, chief technical officer at NCD. Our new NCD ThinSTAR 400 line was designed specifically to take full advantage of version 1.5 and its upcoming Web-browser technology,” “NCD is pleased to incorporate Microsoft WBT Standard 1.5 into our entire NCD ThinSTAR family of Windows-based terminals. Microsoft’s support of server- and browser-based computing will spur significant customer thin-client interest.” “IBM intends to ship Windows-based Terminal Standard 1.5 on the Series 2200 early in the second quarter of 2000 and will ship Internet Explorer shortly after its availability in mid-2000. Said Howie Hunger, director, Thin Clients, IBM Personal Systems Group. “IBM is looking forward to extending our support for multi-user Windows by adding Windows-based Terminal Standard 1.5 to our award-winning IBM Network Station Series 2200 thin-client hardware platform,” Numerous OEMs in the server-based computing industry support the Windows-based Terminal platform, including Acer America Corp., Boundless Technologies Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Neoware Systems Inc., Network Computing Devices Inc. “WBT Standard, in conjunction with Windows 2000 Terminal Services, provides Windows customers with an easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy thin-client solution.” Said John Frederiksen, director of Windows Marketing at Microsoft. “Windows-based terminals are ideal for businesses with task-based workers who are currently using dumb terminals but require access to Windows applications,” The new SNMP stack provides a consistent, standards-based management platform across all WBT Standard devices.
When connected to Windows 2000 Terminal Services, this client delivers improved on-the-wire performance, support for locally attached printers and remote control of sessions. The updated RDP client provides native connectivity to applications deployed via the Terminal Services functionality in Windows 2000 Server, as well as backward compatibility with Windows NT® Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition.
WBT Standard 1.5 includes an updated Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client for Windows 2000 Terminal Services and built-in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) manageability.
In addition, Microsoft will deliver a local Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 for WBT Standard 1.5 to OEMs in the first half of 2000. This new version of the Windows CE-based WBT Standard delivers improved performance and functionality in a client platform for task-based workers that traditionally utilize today announced the availability of Windows® based Terminal (WBT) Standard 1.5 to WBT original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide.
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