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Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380

Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380Sure you can. ;)Easilly sets up the drives, backups, every lat little thing.Then just load the included Ubuntu client tool disk onto your Ubuntu desktop and let the automation begins!Oh, wait, So you [i]can't[/i] do that?Then why did you just say you...

Tags: Operating systems, Backups, OPEN SOURCE, WHS Team, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

Windows Home Server team readies next 'UR1' release

Windows Home Server team readies next 'UR1' releaseQuestion to the WHS Team...Why isn't WHS integrated into Vista like it is in Linux?Have you used Vista?Vista has most of the features of WHS, but they are different products. WHS is intended for appliances. Although you can run WHS on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Team management, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, team, WHS Team, Windows Home Server team

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 delayed to after Windows 7 launch

Kudos to MSThey obviously want to do more testing with real life Windows 7 clients, something that can only happen after Windows 7 goes retail.It's a free update, the beta is freely available... It's the smart thing to do.Thats good...Whats wrong with this feature "Backup and restore support for computers...

Tags: Web servers, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows 7, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows, PP3

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 delayed to after Windows 7 launch

Microsoft's Windows Home Server WHS team had been pushing to deliver the Power Pack 3 update around the time Windows 7 launches in October. But it's not going to happen, officials acknowledged on September 28. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server

The Windows Home Server WHS team announced on July 17 that its next update -- slated to go to testers on July 17 -- will add support for Windows 7 clients and netbooks. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server option

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server optionNetbook-like?Does this mean we'll see OEM's building Atom-based business servers? ;)Windows Server Foundation vs. WinWESSSo what is "WinWESS" then? Is it just Windows Server Foundation, but including Hyper-V and having the ability to connect to an SBS domain with CAL interoperability? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Servers, Operating systems, WinWESS, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, netbook, server

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro

Still more questions than answers about Microsoft MorroWindows Home ServerHopefully we will finally see support in Morro for Windows Home Server which I know people have been asking the OneCare Team to support for the last year.Backup?One of the prime reasons I use OneCare is to back up all my...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Morro, Defender, OneCare, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Windows Home Server gets a big bug fix (and much more)

That noise you just heard from outside Seattle was a collective sigh of relief, as Microsoft announced that it has released a public beta version of Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server. It’s more than a service pack, with at least two significant new features (client support for x64-based Windows machines and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1

Microsoft officials acknowledged this week that they are not going to release until June a fix for the serious data-corruption bug affecting Windows Home Server WHS that was first discovered months ago and affects the back-up of a growing number of Microsoft and third-party applications. The WHS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home Server

Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home ServerI was thinking of buying this until this article.At home we have 2 PC's and 3 laptops. I have a NAS drive for common storage, and a tiny print server to share the printer.I was thinking of getting WHS purely because it is a...

Tags: Printers, Servers, Operating systems, data corruption bug, server, lemon, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, printer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooks

While Microsoft has shared some details and code for its upcoming minor update to Windows Home Server, it has said next to nothing about the next major version. (Like the rest of the Windows client and server teams, the Home Server team is alternating between "major" and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Vail, Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Windows Home Server team readies next 'UR1' release

The first version of Windows Home Server WHS is barely out the door, but Microsoft already is readying another set of fixes to launch in November, as well as the next "minor" release, which it is calling "UR1," for Update Release 1. The WeGotServed site served up...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Windows Home Server Team, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft's next flop?

Although you don't hear about them too often, Microsoft has had its own share of flops in the market. Perhaps the most legendary of these was the ill-fated Microsoft Bob. But one of the other flops that comes to mind -- one that required a good deal of investment from...

Tags: NAS, Text Message, Network, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-25

HP to wait for Microsoft Home Server update before shipping MediaSmart Server

A little over a month since it released to manufacturing the final Windows Home Server WHS bits, Microsoft is working on an update to the code that it will push out to its OEMs and customers in about two weeks. Microsoft's showcase WHS partner, Hewlett-Packard, has decided...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-31

Buffalo Tech's 80GB MiniStation 'turbo-USB drive' goes to the ZDNet reader who...

Buffalo Tech's 80GB MiniStation 'turbo-USB drive' goes to the ZDNet reader who...Putting portability to the testI work for the research group of a large enterprise software developer, and I spend a lot of time working with various groups on my laptop PC. I also test software on a variety of...

Tags: Desktops, USB flash drive, PC, hard drive, VMware Inc., Buffalo Tech

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?

Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?It's traditional for Microsoft to copy AppleThree Apple Engineers and Three Microsoft EngineersThree Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only...

Tags: XML, Mary Jo, conductor, Apple Fans, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Engineer, RDF, Apple Engineers

Discussion threads 2007-07-20

Microsoft finalizes Windows Home Server code

Microsoft announced on July 16 that it has finished development of its Windows Home Server WHS product and has released the code to manufacturing.From the WHS team blog:"Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing RTM. We have finalized the software and now handing...

Tags: Windows server, Windows Home Server

Blog posts 2007-07-16