MS Windows Home Server

The Home Server Show #29 podcast comes from CES in Las Vegas. Chatting this week is Windows Home Server Product Manager Todd Headrick who tells us that the team is working on a minor and major release of WHS at the same time.

Todd tells us that the minor release will extend the functionality of the current product and is currently in beta and once released will be available via the Microsoft Download Center.

Meanwhile work continues on the major release (codenamed Vail) and early iterations of the product have been up and running for 6 months now. Vail is based on the Windows 7 platform and will be probably be available in 2010.

The podcast is available here.

The Windows Home Server User’s Guide website has details of a competition to win 1 of 10 of the new HP MediaSmart Servers.

Sponsored by Intel, the sweepstakes ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on January 13 2009, and you have to be 21 years of age or older and a resident of the US, so hurry.

You can enter here.

Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows has a review of the the new generation MediaSmart Server’s which has a look at the various software valued add-ons which HP add on top of the base WHS software.

Paul’s review is available here.