NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

Earlier this month, Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring, a vendor of continuous data protection (CDP) software. TimeSpring’s TimeData is available for several Windows applications – Exchange, ...

Microsoft is testing Insider builds that use the modern ReFS file format instead of the more common NTFS for a clean installation of Windows 11. When you install a supported version of Windows using ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

Among Microsoft’s big announcements and releases during the last week of August was the first beta of the new Windows file system (WinFS). You might call it a semi ...

Any administrator who has worked with computers running Windows NT or any other Microsoft Windows systems should be familiar with the registry. Microsoft defines the registry as "a unified database ...