By Philip Churchill on June 03rd, 2008
WHS Saves the Day after Thief
Mike Frank’s Blog has an article on where Windows Home Server saved the day for him after thief’s broke in and stole his desktop PC.
Using his WHS which was concealed in the closet Mike got back his data on a new PC. As mike says:
I put in the WHS restore CD, followed the prompts, waited a few hours and everything worked. Then I simply opened the backup of the temp machine and grabbed files that I had changed. I didn’t have to reinstall the OS and all my programs. The restore took care of that… Thank you WHS.
Read the full story here.
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Someone steals your PC, and they thank Microsoft?
Let’s ask, had Microsoft not sold crappy computers in the first place, no criminal would be able to resale them to anyone else.
But, instead, Microsoft sells you a crippled buggy operating system always needing patches, service packs and even a power pack, and then decides to sell you Defender and OneCare security solutions, on top of making you pay again to just backup all this on yet another Microsoft device and all that’s something to be excited about, and thanking Microsoft?
What’s next, paying taxes to Microsoft because your so grateful for purchasing Windows?
How do you know Microsoft wasn’t the one stealing your PC?
OH MY GOD! What is it with you people!
Some poor guy’s PC is stolen and he innocently retells the story of how he was happy that WHS was able to get all his data back, restore everything back onto a new PC and now he is back working just fine.
He did not pay homage to the M$ God. He didn’t sit there and blindly extole the virtues of Microsoft and its products like some talking head. He just was happy that it worked and wanted to let others know it.
You, on the other hand, trolling web sites with your lame anti-Microsoft RSS feed – once you got wind of someone saying that a MS product worked as advertised just couldn’t wait to jump all over the poor guy for even breathing in Microsoft’s direction.
Man, you are pathetic!
I think I hear your Mom calling from the top of the basement stairs. It’s trash day, sonny-boy. Better get a move on, or you won’t get your cookies and milk tonight!
GET A LIFE!
“Someone steals your PC, and they thank Microsoft?”
Why shouldn’t he, if a Microsoft product had all of his data, safe and sound and allowed him to recover it, performing exactly as advertised?
“Let’s ask, had Microsoft not sold crappy computers in the first place, no criminal would be able to resale them to anyone else.”
If this could make any less sense, it would collapse upon itself and puncture a whole in space.
“But, instead, Microsoft sells you a crippled buggy operating system always needing patches, service packs and even a power pack, and then decides to sell you Defender and OneCare security solutions, on top of making you pay again to just backup all this on yet another Microsoft device and all that’s something to be excited about, and thanking Microsoft?”
Find me an operating system that doesn’t have bugs or need patches. And how is Microsoft offering additional enhancements to their products a bad thing?
The free power pack that you mentioned will allow users to backup their shared folders to another drive, no OneCare needed. And why is backing up your backups so important to the casual home users that WHS is marketed to? It’s not, stop trying to play this up as a big deficiency.
And what does Windows Defender – another free product, by the way – have to do with anything?
“What’s next, paying taxes to Microsoft because your so grateful for purchasing Windows?”
What’s next, trolling a blog trying to downplay someone reporting that their product worked exactly as advertised by allowing them to fully recover their data after their computer was stolen with inane and nonsensical arguments?
“How do you know Microsoft wasn’t the one stealing your PC?”
….eeeyahhhokiedokiesure….
nice try but bad attempt at trolling… Let’s ask, had Microsoft not sold crappy computers in the first place”
MS don’t sell systems…
next time at least try to get it right