By Philip Churchill on June 04th, 2008
Every House Should Have One…A Windows Home Server That Is
One guy has installed Windows Home Server on a Dell 715n server which he bought second hand.
Impressive!
On returning home his wife told him that his computer had been beeping all day and sure enough the blue screen of death greeted him. One PC restore CD later and:
She was all fixed. Simple, no loss, no heavy investment of time… Thank you Home Server and Thanks to the WHS Product team… If you ever come to Australia, there’s a beer in it for you from me…
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Such shameful propaganda! Windows Home Server still has a proven data corruption design flaw (KB 946676) that has no resolution what’s so ever since last year! Nobody needs to purchase a server just to backup their data too. That is unless you want to afford the highest cost in so doing while adding more complexity.
If buggy Windows Vista didn’t crash so much, you wouldn’t need to do daily backup your operating system. That’s completely stupid to waste your time, money and effort doing so too. The only thing customers need a functioning working operating system with the built in ability to backup itself to an external storage medium, NOT a bloody server for goodness sake! Ever hear of overkill?
Think about it, when you bought your PC, you only got a restore disk or a hidden partition to restore your operating system from the same corporation telling you, with your paid purchase, that’s good enough. It’s just like Microsoft selling you unsecured Windows and then making you buy their security software or else… Ever hear of double payment, would you want to double pay your taxes, so why pay double to Microsoft just to use what was promised, the operating system for which you already paid in full?
Not good enough for you, try the Windows activation, validation and experience the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, and you’ll soon be broke, in debt and still with a broken monthly patched over priced system.
You know, I think I get it now.
All of these self-rightous self-pleasuring freaks with no life who troll web sites to vent their spleans whenever there little RSS feed system detects anything positive about a MS product are RUNNING SCARED ABOUT WHS!
They hear about all of these success stories about WHS saving the day for people and working as designed. The interest and adoption of WHS keeps growing and growing despite their pathetic attempts to dissuade people with their bizarre and twisted logic. Now with the imminent release of Power Pack 1 and the fix of the data corruption issue, they have lost their last excuse to complain.
Once PP1 goes to RTM, they will be like dogs that had their food bowl moved – stupid, dazed and confused
……oh……right……yeah……sorry. Never mind.
As the subject of the article above, i cannot believe the trolling by idiots such as “Harriet”. The Data corruption bug doesn’t make any difference to me as i only use it for PC backup, not Shared Data (I have systems in place that pre-date WHS) but who can argue with a image-based backup that requires little more than boot from CD and then a couple clicks…
BTW, the source of the crash was definitely self-inflicted … certainly no fault of Vista or Microsoft products. There are just somethings and some places no PC should go…
@Brett
Perhaps, you don’t use WHS as a file share, but are you willing to refund everyone who did purchased WHS to use that function as advertised by Microsoft?
Are you stating that http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676 is all lies?
Didn’t you read Microsoft’s own warning about, “…avoid using media management programs, such as Windows Media Player” and “A bug has been discovered in the way that Windows Home Server manages file transfer and balancing across multiple hard drives”!
Such selfish thinking to only concern yourself dude!
,b>WHS has a Microsoft proven design flaw that causes data corruption! And that does cause customers a whole lot of trouble, which you ought to be more concerned, unless your are just another Microsoft fanboi that is utterly devoted with your own obsession regardless of the failures, flaws and proven design defects in WHS.
By all means, don’t let the truth be known, downplay data corruption and tell everyone you’re NOT worried or concern, as you don’t give a F_ _ _, right?
And everyone is suppose to be thinking Microsoft is going to insure the data corruption defect will be fixed so that all the other software applications are going to function in WHS?
Here’s something you forgot to read, “The third-party products that this article discusses (KB 946676) are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.
Heck, Microsoft’s own software doesn’t even function correctly as evident of KB 946676!
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Money 2007
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Digital Image Library
Microsoft Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Microsoft Zune Software
Microsoft Virtual PC 2008
Microsoft Project 2000
Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 Beta
And who can prove with real actual FACTS that all the below list of software applications as posted on Microsoft’s own article are all going to function correctly without data corruption in WHS, if and when the WHS PP1 ever does get released?
• Photoshop Elements
• Zune Software
• Apple iTunes
• TagScanner
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Adobe Lightroom
• Intuit Quicken
• MS Digital Image Library
• MP3BookHelper
• ACDSee
• WinAmp
• Windows Media Player 11
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Visual DataFlex
And who can proved with real actually facts that WHS isn’t broken with a proven design data corruption defect? And does not cause data corruption with the list provided above, or is that asking too much, to know about how WHS is unable to meet this real WHS customer challenge?
I just want to know…
You know – there is another thing I have noticed.
Have any of you noticed how similar in content and especially in wording and format all of these silly little rants are? They all look the same and sound the same. Basically the same script.
There are a number of possibilties to answer this:
1. The miracle of “cut and paste”. All of the little boys and girls of the “I Hate Microsoft” Clubhouse got together and created one document with all of their content on it and everyone is merely cutting and pasting from the same tired old script. I’ve seen this act before – GET THE HOOK!
2. It is simply the same jerk trolling this web site venting his bile because of his psychotic delusional obsessive hatred of Microsoft (PLEASE SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP!) who is just using a different name when leaving a reply to the thread. Notice the continued use of the word “fanboi”?
3. Some combination of #1 and #2
Regardless, it is amusing fun anyway. That’s why people go to freak shows. To remind themselves how normal they are.
So rant on – rant on MS haters. You provide the rest of us wonderful entertainment – a chuckle or two.
Like Shakespeare said: “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” [Macbeth (Act V, Scene V)]
Why can’t the Microsoft fanboi’s just answer the above questions? Seems fair enough, only they would rather rant instead of producing the facts… Looks like that speaks clear to everyone else just how big Windows Home Server really does have a serious problem to me. How about you?
Hi
I dont think a linux box is the solution for a home, it has to be easy to maintain and secure.
I had a linux server from 1996 until April 2008 (the hardware has allways been the oldest machine in the house with a lot off disks) where i reinstalled my Linux box and replaced it with Windows Home Server
I feell that i have a better solution now, more flexible system that i can expand and me and my wife can administer the server and access our files trough https from outside.
Sure i could have build a linux system instead but this solution is much easier to setup and now we also get all locally store data backed up in a secure way.
Linux is ok, but i´m happy to have a Windows only home network again.
At work i still use linux and the system is great but it is overkill for a home network and to be secure it demand extra attention and work….windows is much easier.
Thanks Microsoft for making WHS 😉
@Peter Nilsson
More flexible system than open source solutions? Excuse me, but since when has WHS worked with any other operating system, that for a FACT open source does?
WHS only supports NTFS! Nothing else, not even Microsoft’s own FAT32, or Windows 98!
WHS still has the serious data corruption (KB 946676) defect, which has yet to be fixed.
You feel but don’t think. There isn’t anything you stated that Linux doesn’t do now! And that’s without data corruption and the higher cost of licensing WHS!
Interesting how you say all the important work is being done at your employment using Linux!
And you even go on as to say how Linux is GREAT and more than you need “Overkill”, and then fall back to the Microsoft Home server pit of snake oil that remains broken with a design defect that still doesn’t even play fair with anything else, including most of Microsoft’s own software applications.
What gives? What are you smoking?
And unlike Linux, everyone is still waiting for WHS to provide basic support to use Micrsooft’s own Vista 64bit, among a host of other bugs issues and problems to be worked out no less than in the second edition of WHS presently known as “Vail” or was that just “Vanity”?
Then everyone while waiting has to apply third party beta add-ins just to tinker around in hopes that something right will work after all in the MS product come when?
How many promises were made last year about releasing the patch to fix the darn data corruption as an example? Go back and read the comments, and your see Microsoft has dropped the ball!
In fact, it’s a pity “Energizer Batteries” didn’t use Microsoft’s examples to demonstrate how all of this just keeps going on and on…
Let’s all NOT forget the actually words used by Microsoft to describe their resolution about fixing the darn data corruption design defect here as well, “…we do not believe the internal testing and private beta testing we have done is sufficient for us to feel we have “proven” that there are no additional bugs. “
Someone sells you buggy software, and you appreciate paying for it?
Linux if FREE, while everyone continues to only improve it. Just how is WHS track record improving? Seems more like everyone else creating third party add-ins are coming to the rescue, while more customers continue to wait, and wait for missing features, patches for defects to me and a whole lot of us out here in the real world stuck using this over rated power hungry product.