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- HP's slick, simple MediaSmart Home Server
- Hewlett Packard is the first U.S. company to offer custom hardware running Windows Home Server. Here's what you get. by Ed Bott
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Server, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott, screenshots, Windows Home Server
- Image galleries 2007-11-09
- Could Windows Home Server be Microsoft's iPhone?
- Run down the check list: Relatively quiet development period, followed by short and seemingly successful beta. Check A product that users actually want and understand. Check Potentially cool form factors. CheckMicrosoft just might have a hit on its hands with Windows Home Server when the first Home Server models debut this fall.Is it...
- Tags: Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs, Corporate strategy, Channel, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- 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
- Windows Home Server hits Release Candidate beta milestone
- On June 12, Microsoft will make available for download the Release Candidate RC near-final test build of Windows Home Server.The final Home Server RC1 code will be available on the Microsoft Connect site later today.According to Microsoft, there are currently more than 100,000 Windows Home Server beta registrants. As of...
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Home Server
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Enough with the 3D maps! What about Windows Live storage?
- Another day, another glitzy Live Search map. (Or is it a Live Map, Live Local Map or a Virtual Earth Map? Who can keep up?)What I really want to hear about isn't who has better 3D buildings, Microsoft or Google. I want more details on Microsoft's storage services. Luckily, the...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Home Server, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Windows Home Server versus Linux or BSD
- Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There was no way anyone would spend a few hundred dollars on Windows Small Business Server...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Networking, Microsoft, Infrastructure, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Microsoft reveals more partners, plans for Windows Home Server
- Gateway, consumer storage vendor LaCie and Medion International will join Hewlett Packard in delivering new Windows Home Server systems this fall, Microsoft announced on May 15, the opening day of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles. Microsoft also announced, as many expected, that the company will...
- Tags: Channel, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Windows Home Server, Windows server, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home Server
- Almost without exception, the first reaction when people hear that Microsoft is working on Windows Home Server is, "Why would I want that?" After they see it, the first reaction is much simpler: "I want that."So set aside that first skeptical reaction and take a close look at the image...
- Tags: Image Galleries, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Windows Home Server Beta/CTP preview
- Yesterday Microsoft gave the green light for participants of the Windows Home Server Beta/CTP preview to discuss their thoughts and feelings about the software and to release screenshots.Ive put together a gallery of images relating to Windows Home Server installation and this is available here.Thoughts ... Well, Im pretty impressed...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Windows Home Server
- A look at Windows Home Server Build 3790
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, server
- Image galleries 2007-04-19
- Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test build
- On April 17, Microsoft made available to testers another new Community Technology Preview CTP build of Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server -- a product designed to help users with multiple home PCs and devices "store, protect and share their photos, music videos and documents" -- is still on...
- Tags: Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Microsoft releases Windows Home Server SDK
- If youre champing at the bit to build applications that will be able to take advantage of Microsofts forthcoming Windows Home Server WHS product, you might want to download the newly released beta version of the WHS software development kit SDK. As Microsoft explains: "The SDK will enable...
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Microsoft seeks more testers for Windows Home Server
- Microsoft is soliciting testers interested in trying out the newly minted Windows Home Server Beta 2. To date, Windows Home Server product has been in test primarily among 1,000 Microsoft employees and a select group of partners and customers. Microsoft is interested in widening the tester pool, effective...
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Home Server
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Microsoft 'Quattro': Fourth time's the charm
- "Quattro," a k a Windows Home Server, has been a puzzle to me, in terms of its codename. It didnt seem to fit with the other members of the Windows Server family: Longhorn Server, Cougar, Centro, etc. The reason it doesnt mesh is that Windows Home Server, in some...
- Tags: Windows server, Corporate strategy, Code names, Windows Home Server
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- How Microsoft (mostly) managed to keep a secret
- One of the most surprising features of Windows Home Server, the product formerly codenamed "Quattro" (and later, "Q") is how Microsoft managed to keep it a secret until it was officially unveiled in early January. Sure, there were a few hints and a minor leak or two before Microsoft...
- Tags: Windows server, Corporate strategy, Code names, Windows Home Server, Microsoft Corp., Home Server, Quattro
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Under the Microsoft tent at CES 2007
- I spent most of the first day at the Consumer Electronics Show CES on January 8 doing what youd expect from a full-time Microsoft watcher: Meeting with Microsoft execs under the Microsoft press tent; touring the Vista hardware showcase; and wading through the crowds in the...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows Mobile, CES 2007, Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Consumer Electronics Show, team
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Rich Internet Applications at CES
- Im not at CES and I wasnt anticipating much in the way of Rich Internet Application news to come out of it so I havent been rabidly following it today but a couple of things caught my eye that I thought you might be interested in. The first is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., mobile marketing, server, Windows Home Server, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Windows Home Server prototypes on parade
- Over at the Microsoft press tent at the Consumer Electronics CES Show, Microsoft is showing off a few protypes of its just-announced Windows Home Server product. Although there were rumors circulating over the past month that Windows Home Server would be based on Windows Vista, thats ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home, server, VanRoeckel
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Windows Home Server: What's inside?
- The Windows Home Server cat is finally out of the bag. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates officially announced the existence of the Windows Home Server at his January 7 Consumer Electronics Show CES kick-off keynote. During his remarks, Gates offered almost no details about the forthcoming systems, other...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Windows Home Server, Windows Home, server, Microsoft Windows, Home Server
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Live from the Windows Vista Lab in Las Vegas
- Is there any Windows Vista stone left uncovered? Microsoft seems to think there still is. (And were not even talking about the "Q," aka Windows Home Server.) The company has invited about 60 bloggers, Most Valuable Professionals MVPs and/or Microsoft Featured Community site members to the Microsoft-sponsored Windows Vista...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Larry Richman, Ryan Hoffman, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
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