Windows Home Server Team Blog

"Your guide to all things Windows Home Server"

The best kept secret ...

Windows Home Server was a secret for a long time. We had over 1,000 internal testers at Microsoft...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/24/2007

An idea whose time has come

So says Jupiter research director Michael Gartenberg of Home Server in Joe Wilcox's Microsoft Watch...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/20/2007

Where's the documentation?

Windows Home Server Getting Started Guide The RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of the Getting...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/18/2007

Dugg

I noticed this morning we were the top item on digg.com. Heh, this is fun. In the last 2 days I have...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/17/2007

Team Photo

Here's a photo of the Windows Home Server team taken at our ship-party last Friday night. CJ did an...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/17/2007

Ship it!

Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/16/2007

From Germany with love

My friends at Microsoft Germany just sent me a link to this very favorable review of Windows Home...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/10/2007

Go big or go home

Or in the case of Daryl Plummer, go big AT home. Daryl's the Gartner research chief I mentioned in a...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/08/2007

One for the books, part 2

Following my previous post, Andrew Edney in the UK let us know he's writing a Home Server book, as...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/06/2007

The joys of woes ...

My name is Joel Burt and I work on the Windows Home Server team supporting the community and setting...

Author: Qblogger Date: 07/02/2007

Sinking in

I always enjoy seeing Home Server stories like this one in Phoenix' East Valley Tribune. Local...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/29/2007

Water Heaters and Home Servers

There is a little debate about the water heater ... In the 1870s, Englishmen, Maughan invented the...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/21/2007

The numbers don't lie

Wow...we've had 20,000 sign-ups for evaluation of RC in less than a week! No doubt a lot of these...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/18/2007

The last one ...

Today we opened up the Windows Home Server Beta program to everybody and anybody that wants to take...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/13/2007

Release Candidate goes live!

That's right...we've reached another important product milestone! The highly anticipated Windows...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/12/2007

Add-ins and Code2Fame

I spent the last week playing with all of the add-ins that I could find. People are starting to do...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/11/2007

Our Summer Intern

The Windows Home Server team decided to offer a summer internship to one of our earliest beta...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/08/2007

A family affair

The other day I had the pleasure of speaking with a family using (and loving!) Home Server. These...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/07/2007

Couldn't have said it better myself

Terry Walsh, some dude from the UK who has a blog (We Got Served) all about Windows Home Server, has...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/04/2007

Surface

Unless you've been hiding in a cave somewhere (or just maybe working really hard this week) you've...

Author: Qblogger Date: 06/01/2007

Celebrating 35 years of INTERCAL

On May 26, 1972 Don Woods and Jim Lyon created the INTERCAL programming language. What does this...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/25/2007

More Hockey Puck photo love

Here are some professional photos of the hockey puck design. Enjoy! (Reminder, just in case people...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/23/2007

A busy week...

Lots o' Home Server buzz coming out of WinHEC.... the demo booth was packed, Charlie's session was a...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/18/2007

Will Ed win the prize?

Oohhhh!! Ed Halloway beat me to it and built the Windows Home Server Add-in that we all want. It's...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/18/2007

Medion

Here's an image of Medion's hardware. Their initial plans are to have storage options of 500 GB up...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/17/2007

More Hockey Puck Photos

Heh. Joel just sent me a couple more pics of the "hockey puck". This thing is so amazingly cool that...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/17/2007

Windows Home Server hardware at WinHEC

We've shown you our fanciful prototype designs like the "hockeypuck". We created this extremely...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/16/2007

Code2Fame

In addition to the great partner news, yesterday at WinHEC we also announced the Code2Fame...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/16/2007

WinHEC: BillG, Home Server partners...and Jade

Today in Los Angeles at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) Home Server was...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/15/2007

The Maker's OS

MAKE Magazine's Maker Faire 2007 starts next week at the San Mateo Fairgrounds near San Francisco...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/10/2007

As long as we're talking numbers...

Jason Hiner over at Tech Republic posted an in-depth review of Home Server, called Windows Home...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/10/2007

Speaking of the number 10

Joel just posted an entry about the future. How in 10 years everyone will have a home server. Glenn...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/04/2007

The home needs a traffic cop

So says Glenn Derene in his weekly column in Popular Mechanics about the HP MediaSmart and Windows...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/04/2007

Exclusion versus Inclusion

Windows Home Server was desiged to automate the backups of home computers running Windows XP and...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/01/2007

External Hard Drives and the Octopus

Windows Home Server was designed to use external hard disk drives as additional server storage. One...

Author: Qblogger Date: 05/01/2007

NY (heart) Home Server

Some of the team was in New York City this week, demonstrating and explaining Home Server to...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/27/2007

To Russia with Love

Thanks for all of the great feedback on the Broadband Conundrum post. I learned a lot about the...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/26/2007

Focus Groups and Customer Quotes

We have been doing a bunch of research, both qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (web...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/23/2007

CTP Gets the Greenlight

Great news! Today we're broadly rolling out a new test build of Windows Home Server - a Community...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/18/2007

Our Design Guru has a blog

I just discovered that the person on the Windows Home Server Team who is behind the Windows Home...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/17/2007

There's no place like a home server

I shamelessly stole that line from this article in Kiplinger's magazine. You know a product category...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/13/2007

The future ...?

Thanks everybody for the ideas and insights on potential Add-ins. We have always envisioned Windows...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/12/2007

Photo Add-ins

Here are a few ideas for some relatively simple add-ins (the product team always gets upset when the...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/11/2007

Answering some of the questions from the "beta" program

Beta Software - The home server team has to remind our beta testing community from time to time that...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/09/2007

Building Add-ins

How do you build Add-ins? Awfully hard for me to say. That's kind of like asking how you should...

Author: Qblogger Date: 04/05/2007

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