Just a little over per month since it released to manufacturing the ultimate Windows Home Server (WHS) bits, Microsoft is functioning on an update towards the code that it'll push out to its OEMs and customers in about two weeks.Microsoft;s showcase WHS companion,
Office Professional 2007, Hewlett-Packard, has decided to wait for that update just before shipping its MediaSmart Server, Microsoft officials confirmed on August thirty.Will HP;s decision to wait around for that code lead to its WHS product going to marketplace later on than September fifteen, that is the date HP planned to release it to market (based on a leak on Amazon.com;s website a week back)? I asked HP,
Microsoft Office 2007, but so far no word back again.Here;s the back tale: As first reported by SmallNetBuilder.com (thanks to WinBeta.org for your hyperlink),
Windows 7 Product Key, Microsoft is issuing an update producing WHS much more “user friendly.”Microsoft released the original WHS bits to production in mid-July and has been rolling out the final code to its OEM and system builder partners over the previous couple of weeks. It;s hard to tell if the September update was pre-planned by Microsoft or added as an afterthought.“As with most Microsoft products, we will offer Windows Updates to Windows Home Server throughout the lifecycle of the product. We (the WHS team) are producing one of those slated in the next few weeks, and another by end of year,” said Steve VanRoekel,
Windows 7 Serial, Director of Microsoft;s Windows Household Server Solutions Group. “These updates will include enhancements to the product aimed at allowing developers writing add-ins to better utilize Windows House Server.“HP has made the decision to wait around for one of these updates (and they are writing add-ins on top of House Server),” VanRoekel confirmed.VanRoekel said Microsoft;s current plan is to make the update available “within the very first two weeks of September,” following its testing of the code. Any customer systems from PC makers and other WHS partners will automatically download the update once it is posted to Windows Update, VanRoekel said.“Like other Microsoft products,
Office Professional 2007, we will also be slip-streaming updates into the builds from which they build their systems. This will happen more than the lifespan of the item,” he said.If and when I hear back from HP about how this code update will affect its WHS plans, I will update this post.Update: PCWorld is reporting HP will delay the introduction of the MediaSmart Server by 75 to 120 days because of towards the Microsoft update. (It;s not clear if that's counting from the September fifteen rollout date or the date HP got the original House Server code from Microsoft. In either case, it sounds like the new HP WHS due date is November or December.
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