2007 February 01

One of the more exciting announcements from Microsoft at CES 2007 was the new Windows Home Server product, which aims to make storage and backup in the home easier. Based on Windows 2003 Server, the Home Server is a platform available to vendors like HP for deploying home backup and file management solutions to make accessing files in the home a simple process. With very few details available at the moment, Jason Dunn teamed up with Jake to find out more from some of the Windows Home Server product team. Questions answered include things like remote desktop support, theoretical limit of storage space in the server, number of users, and what’s making the Windows Home Server work under the hood.

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John Ratliff: “My sister is a missionary in Zambia, Africia and she’s home to visit our mother. While home her Dell computer (out of warranty) went on the blink. It powers up sometimes then dies. She bought a new HP notebook and she’s trying to get her Outlook Express folders from her old Dell over to the HP. Somehow she’s lost Outlook Express altogether on her Dell… do you know where the folders for Outlook Express reside on the hard drive? If she was to download Outlook Express again on the Dell, would it pickup her old folders or not?”

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No, seriously. I’ll do it. One million. That’s a drop in the bucket – 1/500th of what you’re planning on spending.

It’s a crazy idea. It’s insane.

You’ve got your work cut out for you with a mindnumbingly lackluster launch – and the remainder of your media blitz needs to be coherent. You need to begin illustrating Vista’s biggest strengths and benefits:

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I get misquoted all the time, but… I’m pretty sure I’ve never said the following. An article on SDA Asia Magazine’s Web site (Zune Fails to Crack Top 10 in Sales) contains:

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