Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 Official Download

Posted on December 17th, 2008 in Software News

Great news!

I guess there is no need to introduce a latest very right product from Microsoft, Windows Home Server, which is so great as an basic server OS specifically for home users.

Even coupled with an infamous “file corruption” bug, Windows Home Server is still enjoying its thrilling welcome all across the markets, partly thanks to Microsoft’s latest decision on lowering the price to only $99 with the ability to support 10 simultaneous device connections.

Nevertheless, although the talks about WHS are always heated, there aren’t many ways to get this useful operating system. WHS was originally designed to be distributed only through OEM channel, making it a factual bundled OS for newly invented home servers from various brands. Fortunately, Microsoft changed that policy as soon as they realize the big potential such a product carries. Now they sell it in OEM and retail. That being said, it is still hard to get hands to it since not many software store had it in stock.

Rumor had it for quite a while that Microsoft will release WHS to MSDN before the end of year, a request massively made by consumer software engineers that finally got green light. Microsoft partly answered to this demand in October by releasing it to their Action Pack subscription, and some senior product manager had made promise in a recent official conference that WHS is on its way to MSDN.

Yet it still hadn’t got there. Really hope they could make it.

Just as we thought we’d never have any chance to get a official Power Pack 1 slipstreamed version from Microsoft, they already provided it, just days ago.

So where? At Microsoft Connect! A Microsoft site mainly devoted to connecting end users with their front technologies.

Just go to Windows Home Server section and in the Downloads tag, you will discover something new.