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Windows Home Server Power Pack Public Beta Coming, Sign up

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If you are running a Window Home Server you will want to be sure to get in on the upcoming public beta of Power Pack 1.  This update will include a fix for the Data Corruption issues that just about everyone has complained about.  Sign up for the public beta now on Connect. Doing so will mean that you will be notified once it becomes available.

 

Unfortunately the ability to do a backup of you home server to an external device has been pulled, but I think getting the data corruption bug fixed was more important for them to get right. Hopefully this will make it back in a future release.

[via thegiditallifestyle.com]

Posted May 21 2008, 05:54 PM by Josh Phillips
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Robert wrote re: Windows Home Server Power Pack Public Beta Coming, Sign up
on 05-24-2008 11:45 AM

Apart from the data corruption issue, Windows Home Server is a cool thingie to play with.

zero wrote re: Windows Home Server Power Pack Public Beta Coming, Sign up
on 05-24-2008 3:03 PM

@robert

yes, and apart from disregarding human rights, china is a great country...

serious, a server-os that looses data, and whoose producer doesn't care of getting rid of such a serious bug asap, should be dropped like a piece of hot metal, not more not less...

Angry Old Man wrote re: Windows Home Server Power Pack Public Beta Coming, Sign up
on 05-25-2008 4:08 AM

@zero: yes, entrusting your data to "MS-Quality" Products is a bad idea.

And that would be bad news for a normal company. But it's not that easy.

People have to realize that - whatever Micosoft does - is not motivated by a positive goal (like "help the customer do their thing") but by paranoia and hatred (these competitors are stealing *our* money from the customers wallets. kill them! kill! kill!).

Once we take that into account, many actions that would otherwise seem "erratic" or "bad for business" make (somewhat macabre) sense:

Microsoft "wins" by denying the market to the competion. With that logic its perfecly fine to burn consumers by leaving them stranded with flawed products (Home Server) or discontinued services (PlaysForSure). Because, even destroying a market is a "win", because that permanently denies it to the competition.

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