WHS
Hi there! We are on to our second edition of Vail Engineering blogs, and this time we are talking about Launchpad - what it is, how it can be extended and why developers should care about it. I aso want to point out that we got pretty good response to Vail SDK with some of our MVPs covering it pretty well by now.
Windows Home Server Team Blog
Windows Home Server
Windows Home Server , code-named Quattro , is a home server operating system from Microsoft . It was announced on 7 January 2007 at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates , [ 3 ] released to manufacturing on 16 July 2007 [ 4 ] and officially released on 4 November 2007. [ 5 ] Windows Home Server is based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing , automated backups, print server , and remote access. Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server was released on 20 July 2008, [ 6 ] Power Pack 2 was released on 24 March 2009, and Power Pack 3 was released on 24 November 2009. [ 1 ] Its successor, Windows Home Server 2011 was released on 6 April 2011. [ 7 ] Upon announcement of the Windows Server 2012 platform, Microsoft confirmed that Windows Home Server 2011 will be the last release in the Windows Home Server product line. [ 8 ] [ edit ] Features