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Download Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3) on November 24th

The third major update for Microsoft’s home server is now just days away. Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3) will be made available on November 24, 2009, and users will be able to grab it through Windows Update. From the get go, the Redmond company will make available Windows Home Server PP3 in the followi...

20 November 2009
07:34 GMT

Microsoft Pushes Back Windows Home Server Power Pack 3

The third Power Pack for Windows Home Server won't come around the same time Windows 7 will, a recent post on the Windows Home Server Blog announced recently. As many of you might already know, Microsoft released the beta flavor of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 back in July, and it seems that it will deliver ...

30 September 2009
08:33 GMT

HP Also Expands MediaServer Lineup with the EX490 and EX495 Servers

Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard announced today a number of new products, including the new ENVY laptops, the Mini 311 netbook, powered by NVIDIA's ION, the Pavilion dm3 and ProBook 5310m laptops and also the new Pavilion MS200 all-in-one desktop PC. However, the company appears to be on a roll with ...

15 September 2009
10:23 GMT

Windows Home Server Team Feedback, Usage and Satisfaction Survey

Are you a Windows Home Server user? Then here is your chance to provide feedback directly to Microsoft. The Redmond company is welcoming all customer input related to Windows Home Server, and is pointing users to an online survey via Constat. However, it’s not just about feedback. Fact is that the survey is foc...

1 September 2009
05:43 GMT

Windows Home Server Now Speaks Japanese

Windows Home Server is no longer lost in translation especially when it comes down to Japanese users. At the end of the past week, Microsoft announced that it had extended the language support associated with its home server as well as the development solutions built for the platform in order to better accommodate de...

24 August 2009
05:54 GMT

Download Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta for Windows 7

Microsoft has made available for download the first Beta build of the third power Pack for its home server operating system. When it comes down to Windows Home Server, Power Packs are the equivalent of Service Packs for Windows client and server operating systems. On July 17th, 2009, Microsoft announced that the Beta...

17 July 2009
09:17 GMT

Windows Home Server Console Updated for Netbooks

An update released for Microsoft's home server on May 26 is designed to resolve issues where the Windows Home Server console fails to play nice with the small screens of netbook computers. Following the introduction of the refresh, the Windows Home Server console will no longer display incorrectly at screen reso...

28 May 2009
04:04 GMT

Download Windows Home Server via MSDN

Microsoft has started offering Windows Home Server for download via its online hotspot dedicated to developers. As of March 23, 2009, members of the MSDN community will be able to grab the Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 installation disk, this even though the software giant has already launched Power Pack 2. T...

24 March 2009
09:13 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 (PP2) Available

The second Power Pack for Microsoft's home server operating system was released via Windows Updates, today, March 24, 2009, the Redmond company informed. The software giant revealed that the PP2 bits would be served to all Windows Home Server users provided that they have already deployed Power Pack 1, released ...

24 March 2009
05:50 GMT

Get Ready for Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 (PP2)

Microsoft is gearing up to make available the second Power Pack for Windows Home Server. Unlike the first major refresh of the Redmond company's home server, PP2 will be nothing more than a minor update, the software giant informed. At the end of the past week, Microsoft provided information pointing to the avai...

23 March 2009
12:09 GMT

Photography-Specific Windows Home Server Resources

In an attempt to help photographers prevent their passion from transforming into a lost art, Microsoft has debuted a new initiative designed to stress the relevance of Windows Home Server for this specific consumer segment. In this regard, the Redmond company has debuted a new page on Microsoft.com designed to pimp W...

4 March 2009
04:22 GMT

Update for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Microsoft continues to evolve its home server operating system. In this context, the Redmond company has made available for download an update designed to integrate with Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. The refresh, which went live on February 24, 2009, is now up for grabs via WU. “The Windows Home Server team...

25 February 2009
04:47 GMT

Windows Home Server PP1 Update Boots Backup Abnormalities Repair Capabilities

Microsoft is kicking the backup repair capabilities of its home server operating system up a notch. On January 27, 2009, the Redmond company released an update capable of making Windows Home Server deliver superior results when dealing with backup abnormalities. Ahead of the update, users of Windows Home Server could...

28 January 2009
05:25 GMT

Microsoft: Windows Home Server Should Work with Windows 7

With Windows 7 having hit Beta stage and being available for download to the general public, users will get the chance to try first-hand the next iteration of the Windows client. One critical aspect to the success of Win7 will be the level of compatibility that existing software solutions will deliver when it comes d...

13 January 2009
15:21 GMT

Windows Home Server From Windows to Mac OS X

When it initially introduced a new approach to its sever operating system lineup aimed at households with multiple computers, back in January 2007, Microsoft tied Windows Home Server with the MediaSmart server from Hewlett-Packard. Approximately two years later, HP announced the upcoming availability of the EX-485/EX...

30 December 2008
05:10 GMT

Download Windows Home Server Toolkit 1.1

Microsoft is streamlining the troubleshooting process of issues associated with the user of its home server operating system. In this context, the Redmond company has made available for download version 1.1 of the Windows Home Server Toolkit. Essentially a collection of tools, the toolkit is set up to troubleshoot pr...

27 November 2008
05:34 GMT

Windows Home Server Build 6.0.1800.24

Starting on November 25, Microsoft made available an update to its home server operating system. The November 2008 refresh to Windows Home Server will be served automatically to all users via Windows Update. Microsoft is describing the release designed to take Windows Home Server to version 6.0.1800.24 as a minor up...

26 November 2008
05:27 GMT

Microsoft Slashes Windows Home Server Price, Now Under $100

At the end of the past month, Microsoft announced that on November 1, a 30% price cut for Windows Home Server would come into effect. The price reduction for Microsoft's home server operating system is available exclusively via the System Builder channel, the company informed, and it is even steeper than what wa...

4 November 2008
04:27 GMT

Updated Resources for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Following the release of Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, Microsoft has undergone a process of updating the resources offered in conjunction with the product, including various examples of documentation and even the official website. Todd Headrick, the product planner for the Microsoft Windows Home Server, menti...

18 September 2008
06:31 GMT

Windows Home Server Advanced and Basic Editions

A single edition of Windows Home Server might be a thing of the past. In fact, for the next iteration of the product, Microsoft is exploring a new strategy involving a couple of flavors of Windows Home Server. As early as March 2007, Todd Headrick, the product planner for the Microsoft Windows Home Server, indicated ...

5 September 2008
05:06 GMT

Windows Home Server Taking Services Away from the Cloud

Windows Home Server is one example of a Microsoft technology that is taking services away from the cloud. Following the pseudo-retirement of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the Redmond company, with Ray Ozzie at the helm in his new role of chief software architect, is heading toward a Software plus Services business a...

28 August 2008
07:41 GMT

Get Ready for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Updates

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and the gold bits are heading straight for the end users' machines. Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server is the equivalent of a service pack for any other Windows client or server operating system and Microsoft is ready to kick-star...

13 August 2008
07:44 GMT

New Releases of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Microsoft released Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and subsequently made the gold bits available for download. But, what has been deemed as the equivalent of a fully fledged Service Pack for the Windows Home Server operating system is yet to truly reach the finish line, at least in...

7 August 2008
04:55 GMT

Don't Wait for the New Media Release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Microsoft released Windows Home Sever Power Pack 1 to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and subsequently the gold bits were made available through the Download Center. The Redmond company offered just the English version of the Power Pack initially, indicating that the German, Spanish and French versions would drop in ...

1 August 2008
05:09 GMT

Windows Server Evaluation Editions Free Downloads Bonanza

Microsoft is offering a veritable bonanza of Windows Server evaluation editions free downloads. Packaged under the label Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation Software, a number of no less than ten products are offered at no charge for evaluation purposes only. Testers will have access to a variety of operating...

28 July 2008
10:15 GMT

Microsoft's Dream Home, Only with Touch Computing and Vista Ultimate

Windows Vista Ultimate and Surface computing are both at the heart of Microsoft's Innoventions Dream Home introduced at Disneyland in Anaheim. The attraction featured in Tomorrowland delivers a complex recipe of Microsoft technologies including its latest versions of the Windows home server and client operating ...

16 June 2008
05:47 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate

On June 9, 2008, Charlie Kindel, Windows Home Server General Manager, announced that the first public Beta Build of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is available for download via Microsoft Connect. Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (Build 1771) is up for grabs after an extensive period of private ...

10 June 2008
04:05 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta - Not Just Yet

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is getting closer and closer to the first public Beta finish line, but is not quite there yet. Microsoft failed to reveal the deadline for the delivery of Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, and only pointed to early June for availability. Well, the public beta program for Power Pac...

5 June 2008
09:36 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta

Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 are not the sole Windows client and server side operating systems getting Service Packs in the first half of 2008. Microsoft is in the final stages of cooking of the first minor release of Windows Home Server. Formerly codenamed UR1, Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 i...

22 May 2008
04:29 GMT

BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta Just Around the Corner

A new security solution is heading for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Home Server, courtesy of BitDefender. The Romanian-based company announced that the first public taste of BitDefender Total Security 2009 is just around the corner, as it is preparing to release its next iteration of the security products un...

14 May 2008
12:53 GMT

Windows Home Server NTFS Compression Backup Corruption Issues

Microsoft has released an update for a NTFS backup corruption bug affecting Windows Home Server. This is an entirely new problem impacting Microsoft's server operating system aimed at household environments, and the KB950190 update is already available for download, resolving the issue. However, the fix is not d...

9 May 2008
04:01 GMT

Microsoft: Use Windows Server 2008 RTM for Free, Please

Microsoft is exhibiting the generous side of its nature with free Windows Server 2008 offerings. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, but labeled Service Pack due to the client-server platform synchronization with Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft is offering free trial versions of Windows Server 2008 for downlo...

24 April 2008
12:02 GMT

Windows Home Server - Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot)

A new version of the Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) for Windows Home Server is available for download via Microsoft Connect. According to Todd Headrick, the product planner for the Microsoft Windows Home Server, the beta build of Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) is designed as the evolution of the original ...

7 April 2008
04:46 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta this April

The first Beta for Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server is right on track for delivery by the end of this month to selected testers, and then in a subsequent release to the general public in May. Just as it is tradition at Microsoft, all operating systems are updated by Service Packs, and Windows Home Server is by no...

3 April 2008
07:54 GMT

Under the Hood of Windows Home Server

Toward the end of 2007, Microsoft came out with a new server operating system aimed at household environments. Windows Home Server, according to the Redmond company, marks the debut of a new product category along with the underlying hardware infrastructures, namely the home server. But essentially, Windows Home Serv...

11 March 2008
07:23 GMT

Microsoft: No Windows Home Server Along Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008

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, Win...

13 February 2008
04:22 GMT

Microsoft's Windows Home Server vs. Apple's Time Capsule

At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced a product that was until then extremely hush-hush, and referred to internally only as Project Q, or Project Quattro. The brainchild of Charlie Kindel, Microsoft, Product Unit Manager, Quattro grew to become Wind...

16 January 2008
10:11 GMT

Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Will Not Be Joined by Windows Home Server

Ever since Microsoft made the first bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 for testing in mid 2007, questions related to the final availability date inherently followed. The Redmond company offered nothing concrete in this regard, simply pointing to the first quarter and the first half of ...

15 January 2008
07:20 GMT

CES 2008: Microsoft Sees Strong Growth on the Home Server Front

According to the latest Microsoft forecasts, the company estimates a strong level of growth on the home server front. Windows Home Server, the brainchild of Charlie Kindel, Microsoft Product Unit Manager, was introduced at CES International 2007, by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The Redmond company then rapidly went...

8 January 2008
03:38 GMT

CES 2008: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 to Play Well with 64-bit Vista SP1

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 will play well with the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP1, but will also enable users to benefit from closer integration with the current Windows operating systems, as well as add features and functionality. The Windows Home Server team, which has done an excellent job in the past ...

7 January 2008
13:37 GMT

Where to Get Support for Windows Home Server

Technically speaking, the latest Windows operating system made available by Microsoft this year is Windows Home Server. But although the platform is indeed geared to home users, it still belongs to the server - and not to the client side. According to research done by the Redmond company, the perspective of having a ...

21 December 2007
04:08 GMT

Get Up to Speed on Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server, the latest operating system to come out for Microsoft - but dedicated to domesticating servers and placing them in the household, has become widely available for the holiday season. And chances are that if you have a home network, then you will also be getting a Windows Home Server. Although the ...

5 December 2007
04:22 GMT

Can You Domesticate a Server?

Can you domesticate a server? Well... apparently, you can! At least, Microsoft has done it with Windows Home Server. And as the Redmond company is gearing up for the holiday season, a new marketing campaign was unleashed, designed to push Stay-at-Home Servers. Having Windows Home Server, as well as HP's MediaSma...

3 December 2007
06:39 GMT

SyncToy 2.0 Beta - The PowerToy For Vista and XP

SyncToy is a Microsoft PowerToy, designed with Windows Vista and Windows XP in mind. But at the same time, the latest version of the tool available as a free download is not limited to just Vista and XP. Todd Headrick, the product planner for the Microsoft Windows Home Server, revealed that SyncToy 2.0 Beta can just ...

3 December 2007
05:32 GMT

Update Available for Windows Home Server

Last week, I was telling you about how Microsoft planned to make a new update available to Windows Home Server, by the end of November, in order to introduce SSL Certificates. Well, the update in question has been served today, November 27, and is now available for download. Yet again, the Redmond company stressed ou...

27 November 2007
11:29 GMT

SSL Certificates Coming to Windows Home Server

Microsoft is gearing up in order to kick the user experience associated with Windows Home Server up a notch. Like any other Windows operating system, Windows Home Server too will be the subject of both minor and major updates. Joel Sider, Sr. Product Manager, Windows Server PR Microsoft, revealed that the new enhance...

21 November 2007
06:09 GMT

Protect, Connect and Share Digital Experiences - Windows Home Server

When Microsoft introduced Windows Home Server in early January 2007, the company pointed to Hewlett-Packard as the main partner that will be at the forefront of companies delivering the new product into the market. As of the first week of November, HP's MediaSmart Server built around Windows Home Server is avail...

5 November 2007
03:32 GMT

Get Your 120 Days Evaluation Edition of Windows Home Server

Microsoft has delivered on the last aspect of the availability of Windows Home Server. The Redmond company is now offering users the 120-days evaluation edition of Windows Home Server for close to nothing. Microsoft released the operating system to manufacturing in mid July 2007, half a year after the product was ini...

2 November 2007
05:10 GMT

Microsoft Announces the Availability of Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows Home Server

Microsoft is currently hard at work cooking the first service pack for Windows Vista and the third and final service pack for Windows XP. On top of these two refreshes for its last releases of the Windows client, Microsoft has also debuted in the area of home servers in July 2007, with the RTM of Windows Home Server....

9 October 2007
10:45 GMT

Download the Windows Home Server Toolkit

Following the release to manufacturing of Windows Home Server, Microsoft has delivered a set of tools designed to troubleshoot issues with the operating system. Windows Home Server Toolkit 1.0 is a free toolkit available for download, designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows Vista and Windows XP. At this point W...

8 October 2007
08:09 GMT


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