By Philip Churchill on August 08th, 2007
Windows Home Server ETA and Pricing
Revision 1 of Windows Home Server will be available shortly with an ETA of 15th – 21st August 2007. Collating information which is currently circulating on the web we expect it to be available at £150-£200 £100 British Pounds including local tax. For those of you across the Atlantic we expect it to be between $200-$300 $150-$200 US Dollars including taxes. Personally I can’t wait.
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Pricing Yay! A little high, but it will be worth it the first time i need to use its backup functions =D
UK pricing again far higher than US equivalent… the low end of the range in the UK is equivalent to the top US price 🙁
Now I just need somewhere to order it from!
Any indicative pricing for Australia?
Hi Cal,
In Australia, I expect it to be around the 250 AUD.
$200 – $300 = £99 – £149. Apparently it’s because we speak a different language that things are more expensive in the UK 🙂
At least it’s not the usual $1 = £1 conversion!
Guess I’ll be buying it as soon as it’s available or shall I buy a NAS box…..
I’d expect the entire device, hardware and all, to cost not much more than £200. That pricing is, if true, a total ripoff considering the extremely limited functionality of this thing. I’m using the evaluation version but I’ll be uninstalling if I have to pay that kind of money out for it.
I do hope it is not as much as that over here in the UK. I suppose we will just have to wait and see?
I must say I agree with Aaron, I am disappointed in the inital pricing stated by Philip Churchill. I have been using the HomeServer since February in the beta mode and do enjoy the features and seamless integration to Windows machines.
However, for the 200-300 dollars to install a non-beta version just will not happen. I will use the machine I have dedicated to the homeserver and turn it into a linux server. I need file sharing and back-up, I can do that with a combination of several programs, just more work – but it is free.
oh well thought I might have had simple backup/share solution here.
when you consider WHS is a spin off of WS2003, with 10 client licences included…. what sort of price should be put on that ? then of course it is for ‘home use’ – personally I have found it ‘a nice fit’ for my own use, and also as a small office backup system (and all the other features) – so much so, my company invested in the concept – and then asked PC Pro to shed some light on it.
come on – can you put a price on peace of mind ? (all your digital files now safely secured ?)
I must admit you can’t put a price on peace of mind and with the latest pricing estimates things look even better.
UK £100
US $150-$200