Windows Home Server Team Blog

How many hard drives do you have in your home server?

Windows Home Server was designed with software extensibility and hardware extensibility in mind. As the amount and size of digital content grows, the ability to simply add more hard drives and more space to store your collections of files, documents, Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:52 PM by Qblogger | 4 Comments

Filed under: platform, Marketing, Storage, Store, Team, vision, Drive Extender, Hardware, Ux, Access and Share, Press

When you wish upon a star...

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 Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:02 PM by Qblogger | 0 Comments

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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...

Posted: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:53 AM by Qblogger | 2 Comments

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White or wheat?

Have you seen Edgar Voorbraak's Home Server toaster yet? Imaginative, cool, funny...just like the Home Server community, in general. Here are the specs. Home Server Hacks has more info and pics. VIA C7@ 1.5Ghz, 1GB RAM I managed to cram in 4 HDD’s, suspended Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:49 AM by Qblogger | 1 Comments

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WHS and Xbox Dad

Microsoft storage guru and 'gamer dad' Jason Buffington has a great post on the popular Xbox Dad blog about using WHS with Xbox. He cites the Windows Home Server documentation on media sharing , as well as the section of the Xbox.com site devoted to connecting Read More...

Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:28 AM by Qblogger | 1 Comments

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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...

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:19 PM by Qblogger | 0 Comments

Filed under: platform, add-ins, developers, developers vision, Marketing, Media, Protect, Store, Team, vision, Hardware, Ux, Blogs, Humor, Access and Share, Press, sdk, sdk developers vision

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...

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:28 AM by Qblogger | 0 Comments

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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...

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:15 AM by Qblogger | 11 Comments

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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...

Posted: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:59 PM by Qblogger | 1 Comments

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The Tinkerer’s Dilemma

With Windows Home Server we have seen some people talk about (and do) some pretty crazy things. Since the software is available through the OEM and System Builder channels – people can build their own home servers. Some people just load it up and use Read More...

Posted: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:21 AM by Qblogger | 2 Comments

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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...

Posted: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:29 AM by Qblogger | 6 Comments

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HP MediaSmart Server First Look Webcasts

In November HP and Microsoft will be hosting a series of webcasts about the upcoming HP MediaSmart Server, powered by Windows Home Server. Industry experts, including Rob Enderle of The Enderle Group, Rick Doherty of Envisioneering, Paul Thurrott of SuperSite Read More...

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:06 PM by Qblogger | 3 Comments

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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...

Posted: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:13 AM by Qblogger | 66 Comments

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A family affair

The other day I had the pleasure of speaking with a family using (and loving!) Home Server. These folks - I'll call them the Smiths - are part of a group of relatively non-techie consumers to whom we've provided the product, in order to better understand Read More...

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:19 AM by Qblogger | 1 Comments

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NY (heart) Home Server

Some of the team was in New York City this week, demonstrating and explaining Home Server to consumer press. We outfitted a beautiful apartment in Greenwich Village with Home Server, Vista PCs, Xbox, Zune players, plasma TVs, etc. and showcased the product Read More...

Posted: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:20 PM by Qblogger | 4 Comments