on10.net — It lives in your closet, is completely remotely managed, backs up your stuff, stores your videos, music, photos and makes your data available to you everywhere. Plug in additional hard drives into it, it redistributes the data onto the other drives. Bye, bye, Terastation, ReadyNAS, etc.
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nwoollsJan 8, 2007
"MS is trying to win back the Windows defectors crowd."Thats like saying Century 21 is trying to market homes to the unemployed. MS does not care about both people who switched to Linux yesterday. Wake up geeks. That isn't their market. And they don't care. Every geek could switch to Linux and MS would still have 85% of the market and be making billions. Once again, it's not about you.
5blocksfreeJan 8, 2007
@zach - too bad you were modded down - I thought your post was excellent. It pretty much sums up what I believe people will be facing when they use this piece of hardware. This is brought to you by the same people that are kowtowing to *AA, turning Vista into a locked down media OS, rather than a general purpose operating system.
zachpruckowskiJan 8, 2007
HalBSure - I think his point (which he makes rather well) is that MS's backing is a plus for non-techies. But non-techies don't seem to be interested in NASes much.
naio21Jan 8, 2007
@mooninite, you are THE moron. Do you really think the average home user will be able to manage a Linux server, any distro of it? Damned, they can't even understand the command prompt! And they are not obliged to.You stupid brainwashed OSS whores haven't got any clue of how things work on the real word.
astrotrainJan 8, 2007
Now they can say.... The Closet Screen of Death.... when your Windows Closet server crashes.Just build a Linux box, with very large multiple drives and running Samba. Your set.... no licensingmess... no GWA jokes, weekly Microsoft updates to worry about.
miothegreatJan 8, 2007
Microsoft improved SMB with Vista/Longhorn Server. SMB2.0 is faster and supports new features (better support for dropouts, less pointless communication, etc). Of course, when communicating with old things/Samba it will fall back on the old SMB.Keep in mind that since the release of XP and Server 2003 there hasn't been anything more than minor updates done to it. That was a long time ago.
jordnJan 8, 2007
For anyone that is interested in the topic:<a class="user" href="http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp">http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp</a>Paul Thurrot has gone into a lot of detail about WHS, and from the comments that Todd Headrick makes, Windows Home Server will be able to accept Time Machine backups from leopard, as well as file share with XP/Vista/Linux/OSX. im not usually an MS fan, but you got to hand it to them with this one.
butters66Jan 8, 2007
This doesn't have exchange. SBS users almost always want exchange, if just for the internal calendar. If this had some type of exchange for home users, I would jump on it. Nothing like a centralized family mail setup. The box could also have OWA for access to mail from the road. Of course, I am probably the only person on earth who would want that. :)
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