Tag archive: Windows Home Server

Back in December Microsoft caused a bit of a ruckus in the Windows Home Server community by announcing that the next version of Windows Home Server, codenamed “Vail,” will not include the Drive Extender technology that enabled users to easily add on storage to their systems: when users connected storage, the existing drives used by the system simply got bigger, and users didn't have to muss and fuss with a myriad of drive… Read More

Movies, music, photos and books are becoming digital. The benefits of this are huge. We couldn't imagine holding a thousand albums in our hands 20 years ago. But with that convenience also comes a cost. Many of our collections are becoming too unweildy to carry around with us. What good are pictures and movies if you can only watch them on your desktop computer? Thankfully, a number of companies are working on ways to fix this problem.… Read More

Microsoft's Windows Home Server was supposed to revolutionize the digital household when it was introduced back in 2007, providing centralized access to digital media throughout a home and centralized backup without all the headaches and technical expertise normally required to run a server setup. Although the product has never really caught on with mainstream computer users, it nonetheless earned an enthusiast following amongst those… Read More

Folks who are heavy TiVo users have, at one point, likely faced a painful dilemma: how to free up enough space to continue recording their favorite programming without forever losing their favorite saved content. Sure, TiVo users have ways to get content off the TiVo, over to a Mac or PC, and perhaps burn the content out to DVD for archival purposes…but it's not exactly point-and-click. How, HP is offering a solution—at… Read More