By Philip Churchill on March 03rd, 2008
Win a HP Windows Home Server
Microsoft has a new campaign called Evalu’08. Everyone who evaluate 3 of Microsoft’s Server products could win 1 of 18 HP Windows Home Server’s.
http://www.microsoft.com/infrastructure/evalu08/default.aspx
To enter though you must be a legal resident of the 50 U.S. (includes D.C.) 18 years of age or over and be employed in an IT or software development role. The Sweepstakes ends June 30, 2008.
Thanks to ?ukasz Foks from the Polish Windows Home Server Blog for the details.
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The Polish Windows Home Server Blog isn’t working!
So, if you cannot sell WHS, then you mind as well give them away? Good for Public Relations but WHS is broken with data corruption.
See Microsoft KB 946676
http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676
Microsoft hasn’t cough up any word as when if ever it’s WHS DE (Drive Extender Technology) behind this flaw will provide any resolution.
Consider how so many of Microsoft’s own software applications experience data corruption when using WHS, and you soon wonder why was WHS released at all to the public…
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Zune Software
Microsoft Money 2007
Microsoft Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Virtual PC 2008
Microsoft Digital Image Library
Microsoft Project 2000
Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 Beta
How many more Microsoft software applications must we avoid when using WHS? Microsoft isn’t even able to make it’s own software work with it’s own WHS!
So let’s here, when will KB 946676 be fixed?
No answer… No comment… No word even after RTM public release for 5 months now!
With something so serious as DATA CORRUPTION we would certainly expect the “GREAT” Microsoft to resolve their own buggy flaw in DE…
Unless, Microsoft didn’t actually create DE, as they borrowed it, bought it or was that stolen? What other reason could there be for 5 month delay? And I didn’t even count when this was reported during the 100,000 beta testers stage. As if it takes beta testers to tell Microsoft it’s own software sucks…
Microsoft doesn’t even check their own software?
Unless Microsoft’s WHS Drive Extender Technology wasn’t created by Microsoft, it means Microsoft had created this serious flaw themselves!
So why shouldn’t Microsoft had fixed WHS before releasing it to the public as RTM? Especially, since they knew about during the beta testing period? I have to agree with the above comment, that it’s been 5 month later and still no word for when this flaw will be resolved! Why?
By the way, it’s “hear”, not “here” for the above blogger.
@Avoid WHS
Please visit my blog after 10.03.2008, because we’re adding some new features.
@lukasz.foks@gmail.com
What’s the point of building upon WHS data corruption with new features? What difference does it make when your data is corrupted by WHS?
Microsoft new about this serious flaw, sold it anyway and continues to allow it’s customers to experience data corruption even with it’s own list of software applications!
That speaks plenty in regards to how Microsoft doesn’t give a dam about it’s customers, to first release this upon the public and then to offer nothing even after many months (5) since RTM!
Building new features isn’t going to bring anyone back with an unresolved data corruption flaw that persist in WHS!
We’re adding some new features to blog system (where I’m blogging), that’s why my “Serwer w domu!” site is temporarily unavailable.