Using WHS Computer Backup to upgrade a PC
This morning I used Windows Home Server’s Compter Backup capability to “upgrade” my main workstation’s HDD. Here’s how I did it… My main PC at home has a 60GB WD Raptor 10k RPM drive in it. … Read more
Category: Smart Home
ComputerWorld Review of Windows Home Server
ComputerWorld has a comprehesive review of Windows Home Server. “I found Home Server to be intuitive to use and very effective at backing up data as well as monitoring my home network’s health. Its simplicity and automation … Read more
Fake product screenshots
Fake Windows Home Server screen. This is weird. I can understand people who have too much time on their hands creating fake product images of products that are not available yet. For example all of the mocked … Read more
A great runthrough of Windows Home Server setup
Terry over at We Got Served posted a nice run through of what the setup for Windows Home Server beta 2 is like. He took pictures along the way and if you are curious to see what … Read more
Building your Windows Home Server box
Until OEMs ship Windows Home Server hardware the only way to run Windows Home Server is on a machine you provide. The hardware requirements are pretty meager: An x86 CPU with roughly the same horsepower as … Read more
One Man (keeps) Shouting
Rick has posted several more parts of his ongoing series on Windows Home Server based on his discussions with me. He’s up to “Part 4“ as of today: Part 1 – Security of Data, User Privacy … Read more
Scoble says the buzz has died?
First, I think the idea of having a conversation via blogs is funny. In his post today Robert says “I hope to interview Charlie Kindel (he runs the Home Server group) when I visit Seattle later … Read more
Book Review: River of Gods
Whew! I finally finished River of Gods by Ian McDonald this weekend. I categorize River of Gods as a “Great story but a PITA to read book”. Here’s the deal: I shouldn’t have to work to … Read more
Windows Home Server team blog
My team (the Windows Home Server team) now has a blog. Here’s the abstract for this new blog. This blog is managed by the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft. Our goal with the blog is to … Read more
Visual Studio Express and Windows Home Server
Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express. He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I’m super … Read more
Matt Pietrek & Windows Home Server
I just noticed that Matt Pietrek has been blogging about his experience playing with Windows Home Server. Matt is one of the many MS employees who have been Dogfooding the product for a while.
Home Server Flickr Group
Windows Home Server prototype Originally uploaded by ckindel. I’ve created a Flickr group for collecting pictures of people’s home servers and other related imageshttp://www.flickr.com/groups/homeservers Inspired by the Media Center group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/mediacenter
Android Dreams
I recently finished John Scalzi’s Andoid’s Dream. I’ve said it before, but I’ve always been a huge fan of Robert Heinlein and John’s writing reminds me of his. This book is John’s 3rd sci-fi novel and his maturity … Read more
Questions Answered
Over on the discussion thread for my Channel9 video I just posted answers to some of the questions people have been asking about Windows Home Server…
My Windows Home Server
My Windows Home Server Originally uploaded by ckindel. This is my WHS box at home. It started out in a different case (an Antec), but I retired my wife’s old computer and it used this Lian … Read more
King5 BillG Interview/Story
Dennis Bounds of King5 News (Seattle) interviewed BillG in the CES booth over the week. I posted a still I took during the interview on Monday. I finally got a chance to watch the interview (it … Read more
Someone created a Wikipedia article for Windows Home Server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server I made a few edits correcting some inaccuracies… Whoever did it got most of it right. Nice job.
A great quote
Someone just forwarded me the following quote. This really resonates with me. I have been working on trying to get a home server product built at Microsoft for over 8 years… “At first people refuse to … Read more
We’ve been /. ed
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1711237 It’s quite gratifying to see the number of fans of WHS we have on this slashdot thread. There was an earlier /. thread that pointed to an article that was ostensibly about Windows Home … Read more
HP MediaSmart home server
HP’s offical page on their Windows Home Server powered box. My team has a great relationship with the MediaSmart server team at HP. HP has done an outstanding job on their industrial design, mechanicals, and electronics (we … Read more