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Microsoft beta-fies Home Server PP3 for Windows 7

Microsoft is looking for guinea pigs to test Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 beta, which is - predictably - built around Windows 7. Pioneering souls with Windows 7 on a home computer or currently running Windows Home Server can sign up here on Microsoft's site. Power Pack 3 expands the ability to create image-based backups to …

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Anonymous Coward
Joke

Windows Home Server

Is this the latest incarnation of the "OS" that had a latent day one data corruption bug which even after it was acknowledged by MS went unfixed for the best part of a year?

I think we should be told.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/microsoft_windows_home_server_bug/

Fraser

Low res support

It's nice that they support ???x600 screens, I find it quite annoying with my AA1 which runs Fedora 11, that many apps drop off the bottom of the screen and you can't get to them.

Ben 47

It already does Windows 7

The press release for PP3 is a bit confusing

Since Power Pack 2, Home Server identifies Windows 7 correctly (rather than as Vista) and will back it up without any issue at all.

What PP3 will do is tell Windows 7 that it is being backed up - so Action Center/Windows 7 Backup doesn't moan at you, as it does at the moment

Steve Davies 3
Linux

re: Low Res Support

There are keyboard commands available that will solve your problem with Fedora 11. They are documented or a simple search will find them.

I run Fedora 11 on a MSI Wind and have this issue with a few Gnome tools. It is solvable.

Lord Radstock
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Windows Home Server

What Microsoft really need to be doing is ploughing all their efforts into improving the WHS client backup code which currently make each computer it's backing up unusable as it checks to see which clusters have changed.

deshepherd

re: low res support

... but aren't laptots moving to 1024x576 now?

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