Home Group
I've been posting some articles about how we share/carry our information around in the new world of multiple devices and form factors. Most of us today have some form of smartphone, probably a laptop/netbook and perhaps one or two more machines at home or the office with which we interact, not to mention those who have media centers or more ambitious uses of PCs.
A good place to start is really with something like Windows Home Server to have that central place for storage, our photos and media, automatic backup and recovery. Live Mesh provides a good way to sync that data between your multiple devices so you never get somewhere and find the files you need/want are elsewhere. I covered those in two of my previous posts, so want to cover two additional features Windows 7 brings to the table to make that connected lifestyle simpler.
First is Home Group, we often have multiple machines, but they may not be all in the same workgroup, some may belong to office domains, home do we get them to act together, share things like printers, give me access to my data without making life difficult or creating a new home IT project? Take a look here at how Home Group can help
The other feature is a really small one that I think makes life a lot simpler, the ability to set a default printer per network, so your default printer for work is different than your default printer at home. Check Jennifer Marsman's blog here for her take on it.
