Thursday, October 4, 2007

Windows home server complete

JUST six months after the company announced its plans for a Windows Home Server platform, Microsoft has completed the project and the product has been released to manufacturing (RTM).

The official Windows Home Server blog announced the project completion.

“We have finalised the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners,” Windows Home Server general manager Charlie Kindel wrote in the blog entry.

“The evaluation version (with 120 day evaluation period) and the system builder version are also heading into the distribution channels and will be available in the next couple of months,” he said.

“French, German and Spanish versions will be finalized shortly, and OEM products will hit retail shelves this fall,” Mr Kindel wrote.

The company also announced that Iomega and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers had signed on as OEMs and planned to ship Windows Home Server Product later this year.

The Windows Home Server has been known under the code name ‘Q’ before officially being renamed by the company when the platform was released to manufacturers last week.

Mr Kindel said the Windows Home Server project had involved more than 100,000 beta testers and community, with a high volume of forum discussions and more than one million page views per month of the project’s blog.

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