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