This just in! Congratulations are due to our friends at Hewlett-Packard, whose MediaSmart Server 487 product took home a coveted Engadget Editors’ Choice award for ‘Best Storage Device for 2008’.
We like to think our Windows Home Server OS had a little bit to do with the award. 😉
It’s certainly nice to see the industry recognize quality products.…Here’s to many more awards!
– MP
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Sorry, I couldn’t resist the alliteration. ;-) My enthusiasm must have boiled over after seeing all the great reception we’ve seen to the Power Pack 2 update and the MSDN release this week (we’ve counted close to 50 mentions in articles and blogs). So thank you, Home Server community for spreading the word!
In case folks haven’t seen these, here’s but a smattering of some of the articles that have been posted this week. It’s clear that the Media Center tie in enabled by Power Pack 2 is getting the bulk of the press, followed closely by the addition of Windows Home Server to MSDN.
Engadget even featured us in their weekly HD Podcast, which was nice.
And there are many more, so my apologies if I’ve omitted any others that are worth mentioning. Which articles would you want to share?
Have a great weekend everyone!
[Editor’s Note: A couple more clippings to pass along…]
MP
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Possibly lost among the frenzy of the Power Pack 2 release, and the addition of Windows Home Server software to MSDN, was the update today of our very own product website. While clearly not a complete overhaul, we think it’s improved in a couple of key ways:
- A simpler and more contemporary layout
- Snappy scrolling graphics that feature direct links to popular pages on the site
- Redesigned links to Free Eval and Demo pages
- Added a few more Windows Home Server add-ins to our growing ‘featured list’ page. (Be sure to let us know if you want yours added too 😉
We encourage you to come check it out and let us know what you think.
Here’s a quick link right to our top page: www.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver, as well as a snapshot of what it now looks like.
Enjoy!
MP
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
Heads up NAP and NPS fans!
This Thursday continues our series of online chats on Technet. Here is the description:
Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum
Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session. Use this time to ask questions about the NAP platform or NPS and provide your feedback and thoughts on the product. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts. You can learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/nap.
March 26, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time
You can join the chat from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cc719754.aspx.
Hope to see you there!
NAP Product Team
A key benefit of Windows Home Server is the versatility and power it offers as a development platform. Even when Windows Home Server software was still in the beta stage, we published a software development kit (SDK) so that 3rd party developers could develop interesting add-ins for the product. See the original post, "Developers, Developers, Developers".
There are currently 100+ add-ins developed for Windows Home Server (up from 70+ in January of this year). We have a dedicated Windows Home Server Add-ins page on the Microsoft web site. There are also a number of other sites dedicated to this topic, such as the Forums on We Got Served and Windows Home Server Add-ins.
At the Professional Developers Conference last fall, we received a huge amount of interest in Windows Home Server from the developer community (standing room only in information sessions). MSDN availability will increase awareness of Windows Home Server with a larger community of professional developers and help further grow the ecosystem of software applications built for Windows Home Server. Effective today, Windows Home Server is available under Operating Systems on the MSDN Subscriptions Download Page. (Instructions for downloading.)
Hat’s off to Loren on MediaSmartServer.net Forums and Alex Kuretz for catching us during the MSDN testing phase last week! Enjoy the real deal.
Revision Note: V1.3 (March 11, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032.
Summary: Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
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Revision Note: V1.3 (March 11, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
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