Windows Home Server Got Finally Shipped to MSDN and TechNet
Big news, dudes!
Seems Microsoft had been secretly preparing a Christmas gift for all those subscribers to their premium services, MSDN.
You got it, that is Windows Home Server!With Power Pack 1 integrated!
After “years”, actually months, of back and forth, Microsoft finally decided to give it a green light to place WHS on the shelf of MSDN. The guys at Microsoft conference this winter were not kidding…
Although released to MSDN, at present, Windows Home Server is just placed on a page specifically for beta bits about which I don’t much about and there seems no way to log into.
There exists such a special page on MSDN, which still utilizes the old subscriber downloads interface. On that page you are more likely to discover the latest beta bits rolling out for MSDN. However, all the betas or RTM products you see here will only be accessible on MSDN subscriber secure downloads page in two weeks or even longer making this page more like a forecast for new software coming to MSDN.
Pretty confusing, huh? Really don’t know why they maintain such a page…
[Link to the page was removed due to complains.]
Whatever, subscribers will definitely get WHS in the very near future! Congratulations!
And also it will be available on TechNet. Some people smile? Yeah, you should…Microsoft is a generous giant.
So from today on, keep an eye on the subscriber downloads pages. Hope they can make it before Christmas to prove Microsoft a real Santa.
UPDATE:
Finally, after about 100 days’ waiting, Microsoft will release Windows Home Server to the public MSDN/TechNet subscription downloads around March 24th, 2009.
Final UPDATE:
Microsoft released Windows Home Server to MSDN/TechNet on March 23rd.
The official post on the released is here, and my cover in details can be found here.
Thanks for your trust and support all along the way.
This post has 9 comments
December 22nd, 2008
Any chance of emailing the link? I have only a few days left on my evaluation copy and I was hoping it would be released on MSDN subscriptions before the eval time ran out.
January 22nd, 2009
Any more news on this?
February 4th, 2009
Looks like it’s still not up on MSDN. I’m curious – how did you manage to stumble across that “special link”?
February 5th, 2009
Yeah… I’ve been waiting for it to appear too but someone said on an MSDN blog that WHS got a little delayed but its appearance is still due. Let’s hope they make it sooner rather than later.
February 5th, 2009
Silver,
Do you have a link to the blog? Did they give any indication how long it will be delayed for?
March 5th, 2009
You could at least provide the link for us. We want to check out this software.
March 7th, 2009
Oh…well..this is awkward. I don’t really know if Microsoft would still like to release this after such a long time. They had been updating MSDN/TechNet but seemlying never intended to release that piece of software, thus making me more like a rumor starter…
But things aren’t supposed to be like this. They did have the plan and had been executing it. What I said is true and Philip at mswhs.com had confirmed the validity of this. It just seems like Microsoft wouldn’t like to deliver. Maybe they have another plan for WHS.
As to that special pages I grabbed images from, they got deleted by Microsoft after it was seen as evidence when Windows 7 Beta was reported to release on as early as Dec 17, 2008. So those links don’t exist now, or become unavailable to the public.
I don’t know if Microsoft postones WHS on purpose only because they wanna screw this post up, but I believe they won’t. They must have their reasons to hold back, and apparently nobody knows why.
I hope they would release it soon, not to prove me right, but to do something that was truly due for quite a long time.
Nevertheless, if nothing happened really, I’m afraid I’ll have to appologize to you guys and I’ll never report things in this way.
I hope you can continue your support to me, which means so much for me! Thanks!
March 20th, 2009
UPDATE:
Finally, after about 100 days’ waiting, Microsoft will release Windows Home Server to the public MSDN/TechNet subscription downloads around March 24th, 2009.
March 24th, 2009
March 23rd UPDATE:
Microsoft released Windows Home Server to MSDN/TechNet.
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