Windows Home Server - Not Just For The Home
Windows Home Server is advancing on track and due out sometime this fall.
My prediction: It won’t be just for the home.
I can see this product ending up in small offices where maybe an attorney or two and a secretary or two might finally get serious about sharing files and backing up data.
These offices probably could afford me to come in with Microsoft Small Business Server, it would offer them a lot of advantages. But many of these professionals are just too cheap for that. I’m sorry, stingy; I mean frugal. You get the idea. (They use Yahoo! email accounts, now that’s professiona!)
Where Small Business Server is designed to be easy to manage, Windows Home Server is designed to require practically no management at all.
Will it deliver on this goal? I think it has a good chance. Doesn’t mean they won’t call someone like me every few months to check on it or answer a question, but it will probably run unattended in a closet quite nicely.
It will probably be the first time these offices have had anything close to a proper storage of their data.
