14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is recommending no less than top three add-ins for its latest operating system to come out of In Redmond Utero - Windows Home Server. Back in May, coders and hardware developers were promised "industry-wide exposure and cold, hard cash" as incentives to get them to produce entries for the Code2Fame Challenge. Microsoft promised to deliver the winners of the competition by October 2007 and it looks like the deliberations are in early. The path to fame and fortune, starts with killer add-ins for Windows Home Server, and the company has three of them available.
Whiist won first place of the Code2Fame Challenge, with Jungle Disk as runner-up and Community Feeds for Windows Home Server coming in third. "Whiist is a very cool (and free) Add-In that allows users to easily host multiple web pages and photo albums on Windows Home Server. With Whiist it's a snap to make an Office document - or anything that can publish to HTML - into a web page on your homeserver.com site. Simply drag photos into a website folder, and you can post albums of your favorite pictures to share with friends and family", informed a member of the Windows Home Server team.
Jungle Disk is a tool that will permit users to further back-up the contents on Windows Home Server online via Amazon's S3 infrastructure. This is a tad redundant, since among the security, remote access and storage capabilities, Windows Home Server's basic functionality is to provide back-up. But if you are indeed looking to back-up your back-up...
"Community Feeds for Windows Home Server is a free Add-In that pulls text, audio or video down to Home Server via RSS, so it's viewable from an Xbox or any Windows Media Connect device. Very interesting possibilities here for creating personalized media libraries, accessible to the whole family at home or away", the Windows Home Server team member stated.