By Philip Churchill on April 01st, 2010
Is Home Server Heading for the Nearest Cloud?
Media Center MVP Ian Dixon has special guest Ed Bott on episode 250 of "The Media Center Show".
Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Ed, gives his views on where technology is heading including Windows Home Server , which in his opinion has no future as it is heading to the cloud!
Ed’s comments on WHS can be heard approx. 58 minutes into the podcast, which you can find here – What’s your opinion?
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Can’t WHS be converted into your @home cloud?
Behold! the new Windows Home Cloud (WHC).
That would have been a better April’s Fool Joke.
…and no, my WHS isn’t going into the cloud. Not if the cloud costs money, the pipe to and from the cloud cost money and I have a couple of terabytes in my EX487. No way, no how.
Hi Philip,
Thanks for the shout-out. I think you’ve slightly misinterpreted what I meant to say (and I just went back and listened to it to confirm that I didn’t mangle it). What I’m talking about in that segment is the desire to integrate Windows Media Center into Windows Home Server. I don’t beleve that idea has a future because of the cloud. The backup and local storage features of WHS still have great advantages over cloud-based storage, at least for now.
Hi Ed,
Thanks for the clarification – Here’s hoping WHS does have a future, whatever the “cloud” may bring.