Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Jun 2007 10:31 UTC, submitted by Gary Driggs
Windows According to Microsoft's beta tester site for Windows Home Server, they "will be notifying all applicants this week that they can now access the Windows Home Server RC build in order to download the software." Folks in the beta program can already access the latest release but others may join by completing this participation survey. Ars has more.
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RE: Home Server for what?
by Bit_Rapist on Wed 13th Jun 2007 13:22 UTC in reply to "Home Server for what?"
Bit_Rapist
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2005-11-13

Its very impressive how MS is shutting the personal computer functionalities away. Why you can't share or even setup a web server on your Windows Vista 'Standard' edition? Or better, why you will need to buy a brand new Windows Home Server edition to access your files from anywhere with a internet connection?

This product is for OEMs who will be shipping a machine specifically for the tasks at hand.

Sure you could do the majority of this with apache and a good load of scripts and other 3rd party apps but this is for the people who really have no clue on how to do that.

Sorry but I just don't agree with dozen different versions to carry through simple computer services.

If you look at the features in the various vista editions you soon realize the only reason they have the different 'editions' is to raise the prices in the hopes you won't notice.

Yes it sucks!

Edited 2007-06-13 13:23

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