The Year in Review 2008 – Part 1

The year started in early January with myself being awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for my contribution to the Windows Home Server community with this blog. Authors Andrew Edney, Woody Leonhard and Christoph Dommermuth from the German Language home-server-blog.de site were also awarded.

At the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas Microsoft announced details of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1), which would include Vista 64 bit Support and add support for the Chinese and Japanese language.

Also this month with sales being so brisk HP sells 3 months of MediaSmart Server’s in the first 3 weeks.

February see’s ZDNet tech writer Mary-Jo Foley reveal that the next version of Windows Home Server will be codenamed “Vail” and will also include more entertainment “capabilities”.

Further into the year, and by May Microsoft decides to not include the tool in Power Pack 1 (PP1) which allows you to back up your backup database.

Early June see’s the public beta of PP1 with a fix for the data corruption bug available to beta testers. Later this month Windows Home Server and other related technologies are displayed in the Innoventions Dream Home in Tomorowland, which is located in DisneyLand in California.

The beginning of July see 4 new MVP’s. Alan Ball, Henk Panneman, Colin Hodgson and Yoshihiro Okabe.

Also this month Power Pack 1 (PP1) is released to manufacturing (RTM) and HP release an update for the MediaSmart Server which delivers an enhanced media streaming capability and server-side anti-virus protection.

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