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Get Ready For Windows Home Server RC1!

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

It’s looking pretty certain from this post that the first (and who knows, possibly only) Release Candidate for Windows Home Server will be released at some point next week! Release Candidates are considered to have the potential for release, unless any major bugs appear. Various websites are reporting on an email sent to beta testers [...]

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Betanews Interview with Windows Home Server’s Joel Sider

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Betanews caught up with Windows Home Server Group Product Manager Joel Sider at WinHEC a couple of weeks ago – no major revelations, but you can read the interview at their website.

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HP Windows Home Server Advert With (Probably Not) Bill Gates

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

I came across this video on the web yesterday evening – it’s alledgedly a HP commercial for Windows Home Server, featuring the hands of a well-known Chief Software Architect and the HP MediaSmart Server. Video: Microsoft Home Server HP Commercial I’ll let you decide whether this is genuine or not….

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WinHEC 2007: Press Round-Up

By on May 21, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Looks like Windows Home Server ended up being one of the highlights of WinHEC for many commentators. Here’s a round up of some of last week’s online press: Information Week: What’s Hot From WinHEC? Windows Home Server PC Magazine: What You Can’t Do With Windows Home Server PC Magazine: Will Windows Home Server Be the [...]

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WinHEC 2007: Press the Red Button?

By on May 18, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

PC Magazine feeds back on Charlie K’s Chalk Talk session yesterday at WinHEC. Amongst other things, Charlie revealed: 1. WHS will not support WiFi connections to home routers – ethernet only (a pretty sensible decision, if you ask me, with the amount of backup activity required each night). “We looked at the mountains we wanted [...]

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WinHEC 2007: WHS Software Partner Press Releases Erm… Released

By on May 18, 2007 in Software, Windows Home Server

Further to my post this morning regarding the software partners for WHS announced at WinHEC, the Microsoft PressPass site has now been updated with Press Releases for each of the partners announced. LAGOTEK provides remote access to home Control with Windows Home Server Riptopia Chosen as an Independent Software Vendor for Microsoft Windows Home Server [...]

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WHS Add-ins Page Added

By on May 18, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Home Server

Seems like the WHS Developer Community out there is starting to flex its muscles to create some great new add-ins for Windows Home Server, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a new page on the blog to keep track of what people are releasing. As ever, if you see something [...]

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Photosync for Windows Home Server

By on May 18, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Home Server

The list of WHS Add-ins continues to grow with the Beta 1 release of Photosync for Windows Home Server, an application which monitors the Photos folder on WHS and automatically uploads the contents to Flickr to allow you to easily share (and remotely backup) your digital photo files. With add-ins like this, I’m starting to [...]

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WinHEC 2007: Software Partners Announced for Windows Home Server

By on May 18, 2007 in Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

At WinHEC, Microsoft have announced a number of partners currently developing applications specifically for Windows Home Server. They range from nice home automation products, through digital media serving, all the way to (at last, for those worried about their beta machine) an anti-virus application. Let’s take a look at the list! • Diskeeper Corp.’s Diskeeper [...]

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WinHEC 2007: First Sight of Gigiabyte’s MiniDTX Motherboard

By on May 18, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

Charlie Kindel reports a first peek of the new MiniDTX small form factor motherboard at WinHEC this week. This is the motherboard that many self-builders out there could select for their new Windows Home Server based machine, later in the year. As yet, there doesn’t appear to be any kind of hardware logo programme for [...]

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