Standard Edition. Not Enterprise. No fancy in-memory tricks. Just a workhorse.

Later, she placed the disc into a fireproof safe next to three other legends: Windows NT 4.0, Visual Basic 6.0, and a Zune driver disk.

Anita typed it in from a faded sticker on the DVD case: 521546 .

"Rest easy, old friend," she said, shutting the lid. "You saved the past one last time."