Thank you!  Keep up the excellent work.  Can't wait to see what is next.

Thank you for a wonderful product. Please bear with me as I get this short rant out of the way...

It tortures me that Microsoft continues to ignore the existence of the .mkv file format. What's the logic? Why not just be able to play everything? Even with a splitter installed, .mkv files will not play on a Media Center Extender, and they can't be added or sorted (via metadata) in the Media Center or Media Player libraries. This cripples the functionality of what would otherwise be a fantastic container, one that is seeing growing support (moreso than mp4) in the video enthusiast community, and one that has recently been adopted by DivX as their new "it works anywhere" format. Grr, grr, and grr again.

But back to reality, the WHS team is truly making the world a better place. Thanks.

It is hugely pleasing to see tighter integration between WHS and WMC.  I do sincerely hope that this is not the end of the story (I appreciate that PP2 is minor update so I was not expecting the world).  

From my perspective, enabling WHS to host the Media Center experience would be enormously beneficial as it would reduce energy costs (WHS runs 24*7 & HTPC WMC runs whenever an extender is on) and make planning home media environments much easier.

I think it would increase the value proposition of WHS tremendously, offer amazing promotional opportunities, bring more partners to the table (both vendors of WHS and Extender technology) and would not, in my opinion, detract from the value of Windows Vista/7.

I hope that as future builds of WHS are likely to be based on the Vista/7/Windows Server 2008 stack then this may become a possibility.

I created an account just to say thank you! Last night I copied over all of my videos from my local media center machine to the home server. I planned to find a way to have media center serve the videos from the home server onto the 360 extender. With PP2 you made this a hands off approach! I'm loving the updates, keep them coming. You made what was going to look like a problem simple and easy. Thanks!

"Windows Media Center Extenders can access and stream multimedia content stored on the home server."

I *seriously* doubt this to be accurate. I did not take this quote out of context as it was the majority of a bulletpoint. With no context, this says to me that any Media Center Extender can play content on my Windows Home Server with no interaction with any Windows Media Center machine.

Will we be able to play all Home Server content on a Media Center Extender without having a Media Center machine available? I would love the answer to be "Yes" but I doubt it is.

Please alter the post to accurately state the requirements for the feature you are advertising.