Windows Home Server

Thanks, Kevin Beares

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Mondo props to Kevin Beares, Windows Home Server Community Lead at Microsoft, for holding everyone in the beta to our contractual obligations and exposing that idiot who leaked the build to the yum-yum at that attention-grabbing website*.

Being in the beta program is a privilege, and getting access to early builds is a special privilege.

Why that moron would do it is beyond me.

I hope he (it?) is barred from every Microsoft beta going forward.

*It is the policy of this blog never to post links to a$$wipes.

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Windows Home Server

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The Microsoft Windows Home Server group is about to open this wonderful new experience to a larger group.

As a current beta tester, I can assure you that it is such a required product for multiple-PC homes that it's obviousness should have smacked the powers-that-be at Microsoft square on the forehead before now!

Anyway, the link to register for an invite is here. (Connect account and Windows Live ID required)

My friend Mauricio Freitas, Editor and founder of Geekzone, and a Microsoft MVP for mobile devices, has a couple of nuggets for prospective testers:

  1. Read the manual. For this device more than at any other time, and also because,
  2. It reformats ALL hard drives connected to the server, since the Windows Home Server is a dedicated device.

Thanks Mauricio.

Remember, this device is headless, and just does assigned tasks.

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