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Microsoft: No Windows Home Server Along Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008On MSDN, not yet, but it is coming... |
By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
13th of February 2008, 09:22 GMT
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In 2007, Microsoft made available two operating systems, Windows Vista on the client side and Windows Home Server, on the server side, but still, as an offer addressed at home users. With the RTM of Windows Server 2008 on February 4, 2008, and the imminent Heroes Happen Here launch on February 27, in Los Angeles, Windows Home Server is no longer the latest server platform to come out of Redmond.
And yet although Microsoft is permitting early download of the RTM
versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008, the same is not valid for Windows Home Server. Designed to be integrated at the heart of home networks featuring multiple computers, Windows Home Server was made available as an operating system preloaded on machines from original equipment manufacturers.
Microsoft did promise early on that it would deliver the home server platform to do-it-yourselfers, but failed to deliver on that promise. To this date, Windows Home Server remains, outside of the trial versions of the product, available exclusively to the company's OEM partners. And as such end users can only access it via hardware offerings from Microsoft manufacturing partners.
There was, however, talk about Windows Home Server's availability via MSDN. In this regard, MSDN subscribers would have been permitted access to the bits of Windows Home Server along such products as Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
In mid-January 2008, a member of the MSDN Subscription program indicated that at that time Microsoft would not permit access to Windows Home Server to MSDN subscribers. The Redmond company was subsequently bombarded with feedback from subscribers asking to put Windows Home Server on MSDN. However, it appears that Microsoft is not bulging on the subject.
"I will be letting the WHS Product Group and other business decision makers know of the sentiment, and see if they would be willing to share any of the reasoning behind the decision," the member of the MSDN Subscription program stated in January.
And in early February, the situation has not changed one bit. Windows Home Server is still unavailable for download to MSDN subscribers. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.
"Unfortunately there are valid logistical issues which make reversing this decision at this time not possible since Subscriber volumes were not included in their original planning. At the point they have the opportunity to make this available, I believe they will have a much more deliberate discussion and I believe it will be made available based on your feedback and several follow up discussions with the Product Group," the member of the MSDN Subscription program added.
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