Why I plan on using the new Windows Home Server 2011

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Let’s start with the “Just Awesome” stuff… most of this bucket falls into the Remote Web Access site, so from the outside in we go!...

Remote Access is just Awesome!

Remote Silverlight Video Streaming

… But maybe it’s time to take a hard look at what data you’re hording on your server. Do you really need to be a digital hoarder and save everything? I mean even Mozy can’t deal with you, as they announced they are killing their unlimited data plan. People save a lot, and it costs money, but do you really need it all?...

Wow. I literally laughed my ass off for the last 30 minutes. I almost feel bad for the author of the blog post - eh, not really. He wrote some of the reasons why he thought Windows Home Server 2011 is better than WHSv1. Basically it was: Sorry we took away drive extender but look at these trinkets we did add like better Remote Access and cool Silverlight Video Streaming. And then he insinuated that anyone using more than a one or two TBs of storage space on their Home Server is "hoarding" and should consider trimming down.

The best part... 35 scathing comments from angry customers about how the WHS development team screwed the pooch, removed the single best feature of WHSv1 and didn't deliver any additional significant features in 2011 over v1. Not one comment of support. Not one comment of "hey I think you're right". 35 comments of "You're not listening to your customers!", "Please give us Drive Extender and back and add Windows Media Center on top of WHS", "We will give you our hard earned dollars if you just build what we want!!!!".

My guess is that if asked users would say that the #1 existing feature from v1 was Drive Extender and the #1 requested feature would be support for Windows Media Center to run on Windows Home Server. Neither of those are in Windows Home Server 2011. What did they include instead? A completely customizable Remote Web Access web site. Really?!? Really!?!

Wow