jkmonroe Wrote:its likely going to be bundled with hardware specific for the task. i figure that sooner or later it will be released to the masses, but i dont figure that will be immediate.
NOT TRUE... Windows Home Server will be available as a separate OS...and it will
also come pre-loaded on OEM PCs such as HP, DELL, etc..
During early beta, M$ was only going to release it with a new PC only..but alot has changed since the recent build
WHS is a great concept, for those of you who are not familiar with it, it will have no more driver letter's, every harddrive you add gets added to a "pool" and acts like one big drive..with the option to make a duplicate copy of your data + it will connect to all PCs on your network and back them up, as well as make a image of each PC...
it will come with a restore disk, so if one of your PCs die on your network all you have to do is load the restore disk connect to the server and it will pull down the last image, you will be backup in about 10min
Last thing, it will come with a domain name..you pick the name, go to that website..log in and from there you can see all your data, can download, upload..and the best is that you can remote connect to any PC thats on your network
Here is a Preview, to give you a idea on how it all works
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp
Here is a update from the lastest build(CTP build)
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview2.asp