A member of the Windows Home Server Team have stated that Windows Home Server is coming to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).
We reported back in January that WHS would unfortunately not be available from MSDN, but it looks like discussions between the the Product Group and the subscription acquisition teams finally worked out as Windows Home Server will be available to subscribers in the very near future.
This was mentioned in the Q&A at both sessions on WHS which were recently held at PDC2008 in Los Angeles, CA.
MSDN Subscriptions is designed for developers to have access to downloads and licensees to nearly all Microsoft software. The MSDN end-user license agreement prohibits use of the software in a business production environment although the software itself functions exactly like the full product.
November 3, 2008 at 6:40 pm
[...] Philip Churchill has just posted that it will be available shortly to MSDN subscribers. Great News!Tags: Home+Server, [...]
November 20, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Any idea when? I was at the talk @PDC and was excited to hear CJ announce that, but can’t find any additional info about it.
November 28, 2008 at 8:30 pm
[...] Windows Home Server po wielu dyskusjach najprawdopodobniej pojawi się w ramach subskrypcji MSDN, o czym napisał serwis MSWHS.COM. Wart również wspomnieć, że kilka dni temu, Microsoft udostępnił listopadowy zestaw [...]
December 2, 2008 at 1:59 am
Has any actual date been announced for its availability in MSDN?
December 16, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I was also at PDC, and caught one of the sessions on WHS, and embedded devices. I grilled the account rep on this after the presentation, and he also echoed that WHS would be available “very soon” to MSDN subscribers.
Well, the clock is ticking. WTH is WHS? Why did I spend $10,000 on a Team Suite subscription, if I can’t have access to this OS?
December 24, 2008 at 4:03 pm
[...] It looks like Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 integrated will soon be on MSDN as was announced at PDC2008, and also on TechNet as well and both within the next few [...]
February 7, 2009 at 3:43 am
Any updates on when this will be posted on MSDN? Thanks.
March 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm
When will this be made available to MSDN subscribers? We are all waiting not so patiently ……
March 10, 2009 at 10:38 am
I gave up waiting and have been developing against my live home server; luckily I have not broken it yet. The sooner we get this on MSDN the better..
March 15, 2009 at 1:45 am
It will be here soon.!
Since they said this in Fall 2008, I now realize they are talking about soon as in Windows Vista soon. lol
(lets hope that does not mean – another seven years, and we won’t like the product when we do see it.)
It will have been nice to try it out, but I won’t care by the time they actually release it. I am liking Linux more all the time.
March 17, 2009 at 11:40 am
It is up on MSDN NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm
[...] 17, 2009 — Philip Churchill Thanks to a comment left by tmanbt on our previous post "WHS Coming to MSDN", we can now confirm that Windows Home Server is now finally available to MSDN and TechNet [...]
March 19, 2009 at 1:46 am
Is this available to all subscribers? I don’t see it in my downloads.