Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Beta Available!
Yes, I know-we’ve been slacking off on the updates for awhile. We’re leaving that in the past and moving forward now; hope you don’t mind!
Today the Windows Home Server Team Blog (don’t try typing that while holding your breath!) lifted the veil on ‘Vail’, the next version of Windows Home Server. Like all of Microsoft’s other server products, WHS will be turning x64 only starting with this generation of the software, so for those of you with existing Intel Atom powered devices–sorry, you’re SOL. On the bright side, chances are that if you own a WHS device already, you’re a bit of a nerd and will be eager to drop the cash to upgrade your hardware along with your software. Thank goodness for Capitalism! And Chef Boyardee. They both warm our hearts and tummies!
Anyway, they’ve got a nice introductory video available on their blog site showing off some of the cool new features (streaming to devices outside the LAN and video transcoding ftw!), and the WHS Team would just love to have you test out the software, give them some feedback, and maybe help shape the final outcome of Windows Home Server’s snazzy new design, built from the ground up on the Windows 7/2008 R2 codebase.
Check out the video, and look for our impressions of the beta here in about a week!
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- On Apr 26, 2010
- Posted by Jason Ward.
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2 Responses for "Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Beta Available!"
Don’t waste your time with WHS- Use the free program TVersity
I have been using WHS for about a year now and to be honest it’s another semi- useless half baked streaming media server; I say another because it seems now that every major hard drive manufacturer has some offering that plays a handful of media types, but 90% of them will not play mkv file, the format we all use for HI-DEF recordings. I don’t know how many hours I have spent converting AVI, MKV,,Mov,Mp4 etc, etc to (H.264) the only format WHS will play reliably without issue. Some months I came across Tversity (http://tversity.com/ ) media server, the base product is free the pro version is under $40 and it plays all media types including mkv, it can also stream TV. In a nut shell this product rocks! Again the base product is free, pro gets you the ability to stream TV, something I don’t do but a product this good deserves my personal financial support, give it a try you will not be sorry.
Well, if all you’re looking to do is stream video, WHS is definitely not the right product for you!
. However, if you’re looking to centralize backups for all the PC’s on your home network, establish a centralized file repository for all users and create a web accessible interface for your network’s personal files, WHS will fulfill those needs very easily and effectively, whereas TVersity doesn’t perform any of those roles.
I’d be curious though, if you know of another product that CAN do those things but is open source or freeware?
Thanks for the talkback, glad to see some participation
–Jason