MS Windows Home Server

The VANTUG (Vancouver Technology User Group) Windows Home Server event which we mentioned here was well received by the 220 attendees who had the pleasure to listen to Microsoft’s Kevin Beares in BC in Canada.

Graham Jones kindly sent some pics of the event and says:

Apart from the lucky 40 winners of a copy of WHS there was a high demand for the 120 day eval copies and we didn’t have enough to satisfy that. There was a very wide range of questions and in depth technical support was available when needed. We connected remotely to 3 different WHS machines and Kevin demonstrated both a client backup and a server backup as per PP1. He also demonstrated all of the remote features of Windows Home Server except connection to the desktop

Finally NCIX.COM (largest OEM reseller of WHS in Canada), one of the sponsors of the event had one of their directors and Product Manager there who stated that they were working on a small form factor OEM packaged product to be released soon.

Many thanks to whsuser who left a comment yesterday (07 Feb 08) highlighting the blog entry by Neil Hutson on the MSDN blog entitled
Neil Hutson – Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 for developers.

On this post Neil states that he has had a number of customers and partners asking what “Microsoft” products will be supported at the Windows Server 2008 at launch and beyond? And as whsuser states in a category Neil calls “What are we planning to support in the second half of 2008?” is listed:

Windows Home Server vNext

Now to me this sounds like news that version 2 of WHS shall be available this year sometime between June and December. I wonder?

UPDATE: The entry now seems to have disappeared. The plot thickens!