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• 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,... Posted Nov 04 2008, 03:52 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Storage, marketing, Platform, Store, Access and Share, vision, Press, Ux, Team, Drive Extender

• 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... Posted Jun 17 2008, 05:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, vision, Press, humor, Team

• 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... Posted Jun 05 2008, 01:53 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, Team, Releases

• Frankenstein eases suffering?

  Another great story about WHS backup saving the day...this time in the case of burglary. From Mike Frank's blog post titled "WHS Eases My Suffering:" Essentially a person (or a couple people) broke into my house, rifled through everything... Posted Jun 03 2008, 11:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Blogs, Protect, Store, humor, Team

• 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... Posted May 30 2008, 11:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Store, Access and Share, vision, Beta, humor, Team

• Tranquil on the A list

  Good to see Tranquil's T2 WHS A3 Harmony Home Server - "more substantial" vs. the T7 HSA - is a recommended product on PC Pro's "A List." "...this machine is passively cooled throughout; the only noise is of the hard disk... Posted May 16 2008, 12:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, vision, Press

• 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... Posted Apr 28 2008, 05:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, humor, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• What A Deal!

  Doing my duty to point out the 'hot' deals on our OEM Windows Home Server products, here's one to take note of... Given credit where it's due, the kind folks on Home Server Hacks have pointed to an interesting promotion by New Egg - the... Posted Apr 22 2008, 08:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Store

• ZDistrict

  I saw this come through the transom and thought I'd share...a guy in Kuwait custom building a big Home Server (11 drives?!) with an Alienware case. Maybe he'll help move Kuwait up in the Home Server World Cup standings. J Share this post: Read More..... Posted Apr 16 2008, 11:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Press, humor, Team

• 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... Posted Mar 20 2008, 11:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, Team

• 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... Posted Mar 07 2008, 03:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, Team

• Getting Control of Digital Media

  Yesterday BusinessWeek posted a good story about the rapidly growing home server category, led by Windows Home Server and the HP MediaSmart Server. It includes mention of the Stay at Home Server campaign and Forrester Research's prediction that there... Posted Jan 29 2008, 04:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, vision, Press, humor

• SCALEO

  Fujitsu-Siemens recently posted a cool, animated overview of its SCALEO Home Server product for the European market. Take a look! J Share this post: Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 12:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, marketing, Platform, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Press

• More tech briefs

  If you haven't seen them yet, there are now 6 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 Share this post: Read More... Posted Dec 05 2007, 12:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, Press

• C-SAT

  ...is an acronym we use a lot here in Redmond, short for "customer satisfaction." Its all about listening to customers, answering the crucial question, "Do they like our stuff or not?" and then applying feedback to ongoing development. Some good customer... Posted Nov 19 2007, 03:03 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Protect, Store, vision, Press, Team

• 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... Posted Nov 05 2007, 09:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision, Releases

• 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... Posted Oct 29 2007, 05:06 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Protect, Store, Access and Share, vision, Press, add-ins, Team

• 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... Posted Jul 16 2007, 11:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, Press, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision, Releases

• Release Candidate goes live!

  That's right...we've reached another important product milestone! The highly anticipated Windows Home Server Release Candidate is available today. The product team has been logging long hours and doing heroic work to finalize this new and improved build... Posted Jun 12 2007, 11:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• 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... Posted Jun 07 2007, 11:19 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• Surface

  Unless you've been hiding in a cave somewhere (or just maybe working really hard this week) you've probably caught some of the incredible buzz for Microsoft Surface , unveiled at the Wall Street Journal's D conference this week. USA Today tech columnist... Posted Jun 01 2007, 11:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• A busy week...

  Lots o' Home Server buzz coming out of WinHEC.... the demo booth was packed, Charlie's session was a hit, and press coverage continues to roll in. Mark Hachman at PC Magazine was in LA with us and wrote a good piece about how partners are rallying around... Posted May 18 2007, 01:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• Medion

  Here's an image of Medion's hardware. Their initial plans are to have storage options of 500 GB up to 2 terabytes and to offer DLNA-compliant universal plug and play media streaming based on PacketVideo Connect software. It is scheduled to ship by the... Posted May 17 2007, 04:06 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• As long as we're talking numbers...

  Jason Hiner over at Tech Republic posted an in-depth review of Home Server, called Windows Home Server solves three problems for home networks . (Backup, file share, remote access.) Actually, his friend Shawn Morton did the positive evaluation, saying... Posted May 10 2007, 05:31 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision

• 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... Posted May 04 2007, 02:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Platform, Blogs, Protect, Store, Access and Share, Media, vision, sdk developers vision, add-ins, sdk, developers, Ux, Team, developers vision