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Apple Home Server?
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 Read More...
Windows Home Server – Chinese Edition
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 Read More...
Get the Gadget
Donavon West of Home Server Hacks and LiveGadgets.net has created a nice Home Server blog headline ticker gadget to help you get the WHS news you can use. Pretty slick - it currently pulls from this blog, We Got Served , MS Windows Home Server and Home Read More...
Windows Home Server Customer Data
Customers are given the option of anonymously sharing some data with Microsoft during the initial configuration of their home servers as one of the few questions ("The 7 Simple Steps") that are asked during setup. The Customer Experience Improvement Program Read More...
The good book
Another Home Server book, The Windows Home Server Bible by Greg Kettell and Jennifer Ackerman Kettell, is now available. We Got Served provides a nice line up of the growing Home Server library. Speaking of WHS blogs, Home Server Hacks by Donavon West Read More...
An update on KB #946676
The Windows Home Server team has been heads down working on the data corruption issue since we first posted the Knowledge Base (KB) article in late December 2007. An update to the KB article was posted today that provides more information regarding symptoms, Read More...
Survey of HP MediaSmart Server customers
Are you an HP MediaSmart Server owner? If so, HP would like your opinions about the product. Filling out the survey will earn you a $20 gift card. If you're willing to speak to a researcher, you will receive a free digital camera or a photo printer. Go Read More...
For the kids...
We included these fun little customer stories in our press release from CES, but I wanted to get them up on the blog, too. Tell us your Home Server stories! Brian Driscall used Home Server to quickly restore all of his 9-year-old son’s progress on the Read More...
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
The first minor release of Windows Home Server was announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Power Pack 1, formerly code named "UR1", will ship in the first half of 2008 and be made available to existing customers of Windows Read More...
More tech briefs
If you haven't seen them yet, there are now 5 technical briefs available on the Windows Home Server web site. They are: Remote Access Media Sharing Drive Extender Home Computer Backup Home Networking Enjoy, J Read More...
3,2,1...ignition!
Today is Windows Home Server launch day! We're announcing a number of things. First, the HP MediaSmart Server is now on sale on leading retailer sites, such as Amazon , Best Buy , Buy.com, Circuit City and Comp USA . (Officially pre-order, but shipping Read More...
Making the Gartenberg Grade
Jupiter analyst Michael Gartenberg gives Home Server a hearty thumbs up on his blog . I am so loving this product. It's one of those things that you think you don't need until you start using and the more you use it, the more you wonder how you lived Read More...
Goin' Mobile
Cool to see Home Server and the LobsterTunes add-in getting noticed on The Mobile Phone Blog , which BusinessWeek recently flagged as a great source for insights about the world of mobile devices and content. The blog is run by the founders of Movaya Read More...
Ship it!
Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners. The evaluation version (with 120 day evaluation period) and the system Read More...
The home needs a traffic cop
So says Glenn Derene in his weekly column in Popular Mechanics about the HP MediaSmart and Windows Home Server. He says everyone will have a home server in 10 years because "in ten years everything that will benefit from having a microchip inside will Read More...
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