Windows Home Server?

Which server is that? It is true that they have really kept quite on this one. I never heard of any such product in the making, until now. It was announced at the CES 2007 by BillG himself. According to one of the member's blog this is the result of three years of effort and from what I see they have integrated in it all the new features they had, among them a new storage technique to be released with Windows 2003 Server R2. Here is a general list of its features from its official website which claims to treat one of the oldest problems PC users faced: "Digital Amnesia".

Storage

• Expandable storage, which means you can simply add hard-drives and increase storage according to your future needs. This technology has been around for quite a while in the server space, now its available to the home user as well.
• Centralized storage. Which is more of an obvious purpose to have a server in between so that all files can be stored at a central location for easy sharing and efficiency as well.
• Auto Organizing. You had the windows desktop search, which organized things for you in search results by their type. Similar technology was supposed to be introduced with vista, where the info on all files would be kept in a database with their tags assigned by the user. Which means that you could logically organize files in many ways while only having a single copy. Here you go.

Sharing

• Easy access. When you have a copy of everything in one place, your sharing problems have been solved.
• Shared printers. That I suppose is just one peripheral, you could have more like scanners etc.
• Remote access. If you have your server online then you could access the content from anywhere, anytime. Integrate it with Windows Live and you have your own hosting server for your websites content

Protect

• Automatic backups. The solution to digital amnesia we never practised.
• Health monitoring. When you a central system why not use it to update all connected PCs with anti-virus definitions, security patches and spyware definitions.
• Full system restore. Now the system restore service for the whole network