On Sunday September 7th, Steven Leonard, Senior Product Manager for Windows Home Server, participated in a radio interview. "Java with John" is a segment of the Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show. Hosted by John Iasiuolo and Sharon Fry, Computer Outlook is one of America's fastest growing syndicated computer talk shows featuring "What's New - What's Best and What's Next" in the computer and information technology industry.
John, Sharon, and Steven talked about Windows Home Server (of course!). Lasting approximately 45 minutes, the discussion covered an overview of core functionality such as backup, restore, remote access and software add-ins. Listen to a recording of the interview at http://www.computeroutlook.com/_computeroutlookrts/z_jj.php?date=090708
From time to time, people ask the home server team how and why we made certain decisions for the initial release of WIndows Home Server. Currently, you can define 10 user accounts in the Windows Home Server Console and you can install the Windows Home Server Connector software on up to 10 home computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista.
In all of the secondary research that we reviewed and primary research that we did for home server as part of the product planning process, it was very rare to find broadband connected households and home-based businesses with more than 10 people and with more than 10 home computers. Additionally, Microsoft offers a great product, Windows Small Business Server, that scales well beyond 10 users for more sophisticated home-based businesses or small businesses that plan on growing. You can read about the upcoming release of Windows Small Business Server 2008 on the microsoft web site.
We didn't want to build a consumer product that used CALs (Client Access Licenses) as we really didn't think consumers wanted to deal with managing licenses for their home PCs and sometimes when you say CAL, people hear "cow" and respond that they live in the city not on a ranch and don't really have a need for cattle.
However, we knew that there would be rare cases where someone had 11 computers or 12 or 17 or ? in their home. So, long ago we made the decision that a user could have 2 home servers, where a given home computer would only be "joined" or "connected" to one for the purpose of the daily automatic image-based backups and centralized health reporting through the Windows Home Server Console.
The home server team is very customer focused and continues to listen to feedback through Microsoft Connect. A few people have submitted suggestions that we should allow for more than 10 users and/or more than 10 computers. We resolved one of these early suggestions as "Won't Fix" for the initial release of Windows Home Server. But people sometimes resubmit this as a suggestion - the latest one is here (you need a Windows Live ID to access the suggestions on the Windows Home Server Connect site)
So, now we are back in the product planning phase and culling through all of these suggestions. What if we had 2 versions of Windows Home Server - one for the "basic" household and one for the more "advanced" household. What should we think about using as limits for the number of users and computers for a "basic" version and for an "advanced" version?
I am interested in your thoughts and feedback.
t. (aka "todd the product planner")
If you haven't updated your event calendars lately, here's one to make sure you have on your agenda: the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008, or PDC as we affectionately call it. Taking place in Los Angeles, CA from Oct. 27 - 30, this year's PDC is gearing up to be one of the biggest events of the year, and your friends from Windows Home Server land will be well represented!
Last week, a couple of my colleagues from the Windows Home Server product team and I sat down with the kind folks from Microsoft's Channel 9 and 10 to do a couple informal video interviews about our PDC efforts (and extensibility story in general) as well as provide an update on the product.
We thought you might enjoy them, so here are the quick links:
Spread the word about PDC 2008, and perhaps we'll see you there! Let us know what you think.
- M
A coworker recently forwarded me a program that he heard on Puget Sound Public Radio. This call-in radio show was based on the following premise, "Pretend you had five minutes to get out of the house. What would you save? Your family and pets are already safe, so don't worry about them. What possession is irreplaceable to you?"
As he listened to this program, he told me that he thought about Windows Home Server.
Many listeners wrote and called into the show to mention their precious memories. The Windows Home Server team has received many remarkable stories as well! Check out this thread in the Community Forums. Windows Home Server has saved the loss of a stolen home computer, failed hard drives, and, in a few cases, saved people from themselves when they goofed and accidentally deleted important files.
What would I save? I'm installing a carrying handle on my home server as you read this sentence.
Steven
Last year our Japanese subsidiary took the English version of Windows Home Server and packaged it up for the Japanese market. We here in Redmond were amazed at how well it has sold! This success in Japan encouraged us to build a Japanese language version of Windows Home Server and I’m excited to announce that today we’ve officially launched it!
From the song “Big In Japan” by Alphaville (I’m a slave to 80’s pop music):
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight... Big in Japan-be-tight... Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue Big in Japan-alright, Pay! -- Then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Japan Oh when you're big in Japan
The following Japanese companies have announced that they will be shipping Windows Home Server powered home servers or Windows Home Server related products in Japan: Epson, NEC, Mouse Computer Japan, Logitec, Thirdwave, Unitcom, Tsukumo, PDX Japan, Clevery, Regin, Applied, Sofmap, Sycom.
The launch event was held today (August 20) in Tokyo and included demos of the new Windows Home Server products from Epson, NEC, and Mouse Computer Japan. Here’s some links to a few of the new home servers now available in Japan:
· Epson Windows Home Server (shown below).
· Mouse Computer Japan Windows Home Server
· Clevery Windows Home Server
· Applied Windows Home Server
Terry over at We Got Served has some more deets on the Epson device here.
You can now buy Windows Home Servers in over 50 countries. It is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, and Hong Kong), and Japanese. This broad availability coupled with the growing ecosystem of 3rd party products (including over 60 software Add-ins) that support Windows Home Server further demonstrates the great momentum we are enjoying.
Charlie Kindel
Make that Power Pack 1, actually. That's right folks, our RTM code of Power Pack 1 is in the process of being currently pushed out to existing customers via Windows Update - in all 4 of our in-market languages (English, French, German and Spanish).
We're clearly not the only ones excited about the release of Power Pack 1. Here are just a few of the blogs, news reports, and such on the update:
Paul Thurrott’s Supersite: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_pp1.asp
Ed Bott's blog on ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=473
PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326083,00.asp
It's also a good time to give a big rousing THANK YOU to all of you on the Windows Home Server Beta program who provided an incredible amount of assistance submitting bugs, sending feedback, and validating fixes. We could not have released this critical update with out your help. This one's for you! Time to celebrate!
Last weekend I found some blog posts by a blogger who calls himself "Fear the Cowboy" discussing some of the more severe technical limitations that RAID (especially RAID 5) has compared to Windows Home Server Drive Extender. Check out his posts here.
His posts got me motivated to write this one, which I've been meaning to do for quite some time...
When we were thinking of building the Windows Home Server product and doing focus groups we'd ask consumers "what do you know about RAID". Uniformly the answer was (at least in the U.S.) "Oh, that's a insect repellant".
Geeks & IT professionals know RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks" and is a storage technology widely used in the corporate IT world.
Those same geeks, when encountering Windows Home Server for the first time, often ask the question "Why doesn't Windows Home Server use RAID?". The simplest answer is RAID sucks as the basis for a consumer storage product. But, my PR team would rather I not say it in such a negative way. Instead, they want me to say something positive like:
"Windows Home Server is a consumer product that provides an amazingly powerful yet super-simple to use solution to centralizing a mutli-PC household's storage. Windows Home Server includes a new, revolutionary storage technology we call Windows Home Server Drive Extender that kicks RAID's butt."
Or something like that.
Seriously, Windows Home Server does provide an amazingly powerful solution for the storage of a family's digital stuff. This solution is exposed to users in the household as Windows Home Server Shared Folders and to the person who sets up the home server as Windows Home Server Storage.
Server Storage is where the person who sets up Windows Home Server (we call this person "Jeff" by the way) can add or remove hard drives to/from Windows Home Server. "Jeff" accesses this functionality through the Windows Home Server Console. "Normal" family members (such as "Jeff's" daughter who we call "Samantha") don't know or need to know anything about Server Storage. Once a home server is set up, Server Storage is "just there" being useful. Like air. For you geeks, the underlying technology is Windows Home Server Drive Extender, which is really the focus of this blog post.
Shared Folders are literally just that: file folders stored on the server but shared out to home computers. Family members access them using standard Windows (or Mac) interfaces such as Explorer and other applications. "Jeff" can change settings on shared folders if he really needs to, but the system is designed to "just work" for most families out of the box. For the geeks reading this, the underlying technology in use here is SMB/CIFS. Windows Home Server Remote Access makes it easy to access shared folders from outside the home using a standard web browser as well.
On the surface, various RAID technologies purport to meet some of the requirements we set for the storage system for Windows Home Server, which were:
Windows Home Server storage system design requirements
It turns out that no RAID technology (I almost wrote "solution", but there is no such thing as a "RAID solution", it's just a big mish-mash of technology) met more than a few of these requirements when we first started building the product.
So we designed an innovative new technology called Windows Home Server Drive Extender and we have shipped that technology as part of a complete solution in Windows Home Server. The Windows Home Server solution meets all of these requirements. And it kicks butt.
Did you know you can get a free evaluation copy of Windows Home Server by going here? For many geographies we'll ship it to you for free as well. Install it on some old computer (the resource requirements are pretty meager; an old PIII with 512MB of RAM will work great) and throw a bunch of hard drives at it to see just how great a job it does.
Or skip the "free crack" step and just dive in and buy an OEM product.
-cek
Our very own Jim Lyon (Wikipedia link), co-inventor of INTERCAL (the programming language most of Windows Home Server is written in), has started blogging. Jim's industry experience and strong wit are sure to make his blog a favorite along the lines of other great technical Microsoft bloggers like Mark Russinovich and Dare Obasanjo.
For those of you who don't know Jim was instrumental in the design and implementation of Windows Home Server's amazing and innovative Home Computer Backup solution (Technical brief). He's the "rocket scientist" behind the "rocket science" that makes it work.
Check his blog out at: http://lyontamers.com/blogs/jimlyon/. Make sure you give him a hard time if he's not being controversial enough. :-)
The Power Pack 1 train is leaving the station. Today the Windows Home Server team made the Power Pack 1 updates for all of the currently shipping languages available via the Microsoft Download Center. Additionally, we signed off on the Japanese language build and the 3 Chinese language builds.
The Power Pack 1 update for English, German, French and Spanish will be distributed to all Windows Home Server owners on Tuesday August 12th as part of the regular Windows Update distribution process.
If you are anxious to have Power Pack 1 on your home servers, then you can use the following links to find the German, French, and Spanish Power Pack 1 update packages:
If you have any questions, you can always find a Windows Home Server MVP, a passionate home server enthusiast, or someone from the Windows Home Server team on the Community forums - http://forums.homeserver.com .
t.
The Windows Home Server marketing team in Germany recently kicked off an awareness campaign for journalists.
"Sun protection and data protection, before you go on vacation, buy a Windows Home Server system to backup your data and save all your vacation pictures!"
The press kit included some sunscreen and a digital camera promotion in partnership with Kodak. Luckily, they decided to forgo a Windows Home Server bathing suit. (No picture required.)
The Windows Home Server test team has been very busy doing all of the final testing for the localized builds of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. The product will soon be available in 4 new language options for a total of 8 localized builds. Currently, the English version of the Power Pack 1 update package is available on the Microsoft Download Center.
In early August, we will add the German, French and Spanish update packages to the Download Center and also distribute the Power Pack 1 package via Windows Updates so if you want to skip the manual steps of using the Download Center you only have to wait a little longer.
In addition, we will be releasing new media kits of the software into the System Builder channel in the coming weeks. So as the new software proceeds through the manufacturing process in the various worldwide geographies, you will see these new part numbers become available.
There is no reason to wait for the new media release of Windows Home Server - if you buy it today, the Power Pack 1 update is free and will be applied via a Windows Update. One small point of trivia, with the initial release of Windows Home Server, the first copy was purchased in New Zealand, as they have a very streamlined manufacturing process in that part of the world …
Also, there is some Power Pack 1 information on the Microsoft Windows Home Server web site. Check it out …
The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center!
The English version is available now and German, Spanish and French versions will be available on the Download Center soon. Windows Home Server customers who don’t download it on their own will receive Power Pack 1 via Windows Update in August, and the new Chinese and Japanese versions will RTM in August, too.
As many know, Power Pack 1 provides a range of new enhancements, including support for home computers running Windows Vista x64 editions, backup of home server Shared Folders, improvements to remote access, more efficient power consumption and better performance. And, of course, it delivers a fix for the data corruption bug. Documentation for Power Pack 1 (Build #1800, to those who have been part of the beta testing) is available here.
Our OEM partners will be updating their systems with Power Pack 1 and HP will release a software update for the HP MediaSmart Server, delivering enhanced media streaming capabilities from PacketVideo, server-side anti-virus from McAfee and compatibility with 64-bit home PCs.
Windows Home Server can now be purchased in 50 countries worldwide and a growing ecosystem of third-party software developers has released approximately 60 Add-in programs extending Windows Home Server’s capabilities. To help fuel this development we have updated the Windows Home Server software development kit for Power Pack 1, including new support for the client PC side, i.e. notifications to/from home computers.
We continue to hear fantastic feedback from our customers about how Home Server is helping them protect and organize their digital media, access it away from home, and share it with friends and family. Thank you to our beta testers and partners for helping us ship Power Pack 1, and to the Home Server community as a whole, for its ongoing support and enthusiasm.
The Windows Home Server Team
Family Feud was a television game show that featured two families (and in later years, celebrity teams) in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people.
Although there will be no 'kissing hosts' and 'loud buzzers', the Windows Home Server team is kicking off a purchaser survey. We want to better understand the usage, attitudes, and satisfaction of purchasers and regular users. If you are a current Windows Home Server system owner, we want to hear from you!
English users
German users
After a successful start to our educational Home Server Webinar series on June 25th (over 350 attendees!), we've lined up a couple more sessions for July.
This time we'll be focusing on how to leverage the HP MediaSmart Server (and Windows Home Server) for digital photography. Learn from guest experts on recommended workflow, photo-focused features of the product, and maybe a few photography ‘tips and tricks’. We have two sessions scheduled for July 17 and July 22nd.
Here's a quick lineup of our guests:
To register for both events please visit our webcast page: www.windows.com/hpmediasmartwebinar. Please register early to secure your spot (we'll do our best to accomodate everyone this time round). ;-)
See you online!
- M.
We have four new Windows Home Server MVPs, Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, as of July 1st. You can read about them by going to the MVP Awardees link, and selecting Windows Home Server, under the Server Solutions products, or just click here. The 4 new MVPs are:
Colin and Alan will be updating their profiles shortly ....
Welcome to the team!!
Donavon over at Home Server Hacks has started a new "Ask the Home Server Guy" feature. In his words:
Send in your questions about anything and everything Windows Home Server related and I’ll do my best to answer them. Send your questions to ask@HomeServerGuy.com (note the spiffy new domain name).
Also - Home Server Show 7 went up this week, featuring Nick Asseloos, the author of the popular Add-In AutoExit2008
J
...for this Wednesday, June 25th at 10 a.m. PST for the first in a series of interactive 'Webinars' that Microsoft and HP are collaborating on on Windows Home Server and the HP Mediasmart Server. We're conducting these to offer the broader community a chance to learn more about topics of interest to you - in an engaging, interactive way (via Live Meetings).
First up for this Wednesday: a discussion around ‘software add-ins’ for Windows Home Server, featuring guest Terry Walsh of WeGotServed.co.uk fame (along with representatives from MSFT and HP, of course).
Topics we’ll cover in future Webinars will include ‘Digital Photography and Windows Home Server’ and ‘the mobile traveler/user and Windows Home Server’. We encourage you to visit our Webinar page for additional details and updates on the event schedule, along with links to the event registration pages. Please also post a comment to us know if you have suggestions on future topics. We'd love to hear from you.
Thanks and don’t forget to REGISTER TODAY for this Wednesday’s Webinar! Look forward to seeing everybody online…
M.
Update: We will be posting a link to the archived recording of this Webinar after the event (on this blog) Our apologies for the full registration...Clearly there's significant interest!
Yesterday the Innoventions Dream Home became the latest attraction at Disneyland. Located in Tomorrowland, the Dream Home delivers on "Walt's vision for showcasing cutting-edge technologies that make life better and easier." The Dream Home is a collaboration between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware and home-builder Taylor Morrison. Interestingly, nearly all of the products and technologies featured in the home - including HP MediaSmart Server/Windows Home Server - are available today.
Home Server is included in the Atlanta Journal Constitution story and some of the other press coverage rolling in. Microsoft's press release about the grand opening is here.
This past week a few members of the Windows Home Server team were in Tokyo, Japan. Along with the local team from Microsoft Japan, we were very pleased to host the first Windows Home Server Users Night! The venue was a banquet room on the 47th floor of the Keio Plaza Hotel, in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo which afforded a beautiful view of the cityscape and a free "light show" courtesy of a passing thunderstorm.
About 30 enthusiastic people showed up to enjoy food, drinks, and all things Windows Home Server. Kenichi-san, a technical evangelist from Microsoft Japan, was the master of ceremony. After a brief presentation, the attendees got a chance to pepper the Microsoft team with questions. Topics ranged from positioning versus the competition, to very technical aspects of the product. It was an interesting exercise working through a Japanese translator!
For those of you following the Windows Home Server World Cup, the Users Night attendees assured the Microsoft team that Japan would rise quickly in the rankings once the Japanese version of Windows Home Server is available. We certainly hope they are right.
We also discovered that in conjunction with availability of Japanese online forums, a competition had taken place earlier in the year for Windows Home Server applications.
http://www.homeserver-forum.com/communityhs/contest/hs_contest_3rd.asp
Interested in an application for Windows Home Server that monitors your aquarium? (PH levels of the water, water temperature, room temperature, lighting/brightness, and the requisite aquarium web camera). It’s all written in Japanese but was quite a unique and original scenario. Congratulations Mr. Yoshihiro Okabe!
Last December, I posted a story to my personal blog titled "Windows Home Server is actually useful!" where I had an opportunity to benefit from the power of Windows Home Server's home computer backup and restore capability myself. In that case it was all about "protecting time".
Another example where it can help save time is when you want to put a new/larger hard drive in a home computer. I wrote about how to do this here about a year ago before we even shipped.
Yesterday, like the idiot I can sometimes be, I accidentally killed the partition on the second drive in my main work desktop machine. A developer and I were trying to get a USB key formatted in a particular way and I was using DISKPART.EXE to do the job. DISKPART.EXE is a very powerful, but potentially dangerous tool provided with Windows for working with disk partitions. It's a command line tool that will do precisely what you ask it.
In my case I asked it to delete the partition of "disk 2" and it did it's job. However, I *meant* to delete a partition on disk 3.
Disk 2 is drive D: on my system and it's a 1TB drive that I use for source code enlistments and "extra" backups of all my old stuff. It has about 700GB of data on it. Most of that 700GB is easily replaceable, but some of it is old documents and things from old projects that I am not sure are archived anywhere else. Oops.
I got that bad feeling in my stomach for just a moment. Then I remembered that this computer is backed up by the Windows Home Server in my office. I simply started the Windows Home Server computer restore process, picked the most recent backup, told it to restore the D: drive, and then went home. 700GB of data will take quite a few hours to restore, even over a gigabit network, but I knew it would be done in the morning. And sure enough this morning the process had completed and I had my drive back exactly the way it was before I screwed up.
This is an example of how Windows Home Server's home computer backup and restore capability can "protect data".
There is nothing else out there that even comes close to it's ease of use and power. Kudos to "Q team" for delivering such a kick-butt solution! (If you want to understand this technology at a deeper level we've got a technical brief here).
You may think I'm biased. I am. But I'm not alone in my opinion of this capability. Check out this post from another "Charlie" over on the x(perts)64 blog.
If you have not tried Windows Home Server yourself, what's stopping you? You can download a free 120 day eval version (sign up for the public beta of Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 to get the latest bits) to install on a frankenmachine or a VM and get hooked. Or you can buy one of the great OEM products available and skip that step :-).
Cheers!
-Charlie Kindel
Just noticed this announcement from HAI: http://www.homeauto.com/newsandevents/pressreleases/content/20080610WL3.asp
"WL3 for Windows Home Server...allows you to change your home’s temperatures, adjust the lights or security settings, or view any supported camera securely and easily. WL3 automatically configures supported UPnP IP cameras on your home network and allows you to manually configure other IP cameras on your network or cameras that reside anywhere on the Internet. It also allows you to view and record video from cameras in your home or from public IP cameras around town, such as traffic and weather cameras. Regardless of the brand of camera, the video is displayed in the WL3 format so that all camera feeds have a consistent look and feel. Easily select any camera, choose the frame rate and screen size, manually start and stop video recording, take a snapshot of the video image, and play, pause, or stop the video stream."
I've been a hard core home automation freak for a loooong time. My previous house boasted a mish-mash of stuff mostly based around X10, but my current house has a bunch of high-end systems (Lutron for lighting, Crestron for AV, Caddx for Security, Enerzone for HVAC, Panasonic for phone, and something I built myself for Irrigation and security cameras) all integrated together with a now-defunct, but amazingly well done, piece of software called Premise. By the way Premise works great on Windows Home Server but www.premisesystems.com appears to be offline for good :-(. With all this talk about "Smart Homes" I do need to disclose fully that my wife calls our house the "Stupid House". But I'll get it all working reliably any day now :-).
Windows Home Server provides a phenomenal platform for home control and it is great to see multiple vendors embracing it and providing consumers with solutions:
This category is just one of the dozens where people are targeting Windows Home Server as a platform. You can find lists of 3rd party products that work on and with Windows Home Server at several enthusiast sites, including www.wegotserved.co.uk.
I knew it wouldn’t take long for someone to figure out that the Apple Mac Mini is an interesting platform for running Windows Home Server. The Home Server Hacks blog has a detailed step-by-step document of how to re-purpose a Mac Mini to act as a home server.
Forrester recently published a paper entitled, “The Future of Apple Inc.”, that stated by 2013 Apple would likely ship a home server product. If you are a diehard Mac enthusiast, you don’t have to wait 5 more years, you can run the Windows Home Server operating system on a Mac today !!!
The Windows Home Server team, in conjunction with all of our partners, MVPs, and "Dogfooders" is extremely happy to announce that a Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (Build 1771) is now available for public download and testing through Microsoft Connect!
There has been a huge amount of testing applied to Power Pack 1 already and we have high confidence that Power Pack 1 solves the data corruption bug that was first identified late last year (Knowledge Base article #946676). We are running this public beta with the aspiration that we will get thousands of beta testers to help us prove that we not only have fixed "the bug", but have significantly improved all parts of Windows Home Server with new features such as:
We will not ship the final release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 until the community has validated our work. In the Release Documentation for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 we outline a number of specific test scenarios. For us to feel our testing has been validated we need a large number of beta testers to work through these scenarios and regular home server operation for a period of time. Given the fantastic number of people who have signed up already (well ahead of the numbers we were hoping for), and how great the community has been in the past in helping us, I am confident we'll get enough testers. The only remaining question is how quickly those testers download the bits and start testing them.
The Windows Home Server Customer Improvement Program allows us to track metrics on product usage and we are anxiously watching how the product is used to gauge when we've hit our target...so we can begin the final release process.
So don't delay. Head on over to Microsoft Connect and sign-up (if you haven't already) and download and start testing Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. We've posted both an update package that can be applied to existing Windows Home Servers as well as updated DVD and CD ISO images of an evaluation version of Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1. If you choose to run the Release Candidate on a "production" home server you should make a backup of everything prior to getting started. Make sure you read the Release Documentation to see what's new and updated!
The Windows Home Server team has added a Power Pack 1 forum to the Windows Home Server Community forums. If you have questions about Power Pack 1, please go there to ask them. Cheers!
The Belinea o.center Home Server from MaxData is now available for sale in Europe. You can find out more information at http://www.amazon.de/belinea or by visiting the MaxData web site – http://www.maxdata.com. And, they even created a translated version of the soon to be infamous children’s book complete with a o.center home server gracing the pages …
Microsoft announced today that Windows Home Server Chinese Edition will be launched in Taiwan in the second half of 2008. OEM Partners including Gigabyte, VIA, WNC, and Sampo who will offer complete solutions for households. Here is a snapshot of an article from Economic Daily on June 5, 2008.
Home server product booth
Charlie Kindel introduces that Windows Home Server Chinese language support will enable even more partners to build home server software and hardware products
Jim Fredrickson talks about the Home Server ecosystem
Here are some links to additional articles:
iThome Online, 5th Jun. 2008
http://news.veda.com.tw/Newsfile/internet/20086/ithome080605172042-c.htm
UDNdata.com, 5th Jun. 2008
http://news.veda.com.tw/Newsfile/internet/20086/udndata080605172009-c.htm
Money.udn.com, 5th Jun. 2008
http://news.veda.com.tw/Newsfile/internet/20086/udn080605172050-c.htm