Gates sees a home server in your future
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 8.1.2007
LAS VEGAS--Having helped get PCs into most American's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server.
As part of his keynote address Sunday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Gates is showing off Windows Home Server--a consumer device to serve as a central storage place for digital photos, music and other media. The first products are due out later this year from Hewlett-Packard and others. The goal is to get devices that can cost less than $500.
In the first of a two-part interview, Microsoft's chairman talks with CNET News.com about why the average person wants a server, why they won't need a degree in computer science to run it and what hurdles remain before consumers reach the true digital home.
Q: One of the things you are talking about at CES is a new home server? Why does the average home need a server?
Gates: If you have got multiple PCs, then you want files that are available all the time no matter which PCs are turned on or off, and you'd also like to have a server that when you just add just add storage it automatically takes advantage of that. You don't have to think about drive names or moving files around
In fact you get redundancy so that even if you have physical failures you have recoverability.
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Comments(4)
seems like the geek lifestyle (having multiple computers, for several different purposes) becomes mainstream.
why spend moneys on a whole new home server, when you just can buy a external hdd and connect it to your
router/modem or whatever?
i've been running a media center (in a chipped xbox actually), along with dvr's and a network both wireless
and wired, and with a server which streams out all my content and shares folders out to other users on the
network etc in my home for years, and bill gates thinks this is news???
he just got out to his 1st lan party in 5 years and saw his friends totally moded xbox and thought he could
sell that?
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i am amazed
By 2smart4u on 08.01.2007 - 15:01