As expected, Microsoft Corp is granting Windows NT and Windows for Workgroups users access to Unix networks via support for SunSelect’s PC-NFS software. SunSelect, the Sun Microsystems Inc personal computer-to-Unix communications satellite, is developing a version of PC-NFS tuned for Windows NT that will ship in the third quarter. Windows for Workgroups drivers will be delivered as part of a forthcoming PC-NFS release, said to be imminent, by which time Microsoft is expected to have released an updated version of Windows for Workgroups with a patch for PC-NFS support. PC-NFS is an implementation of Sun Microsystems Inc’s widely used Network File System mechanism which operates over the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol technologies and enables personal computers to access resources on Unix systems.
