Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has finished work on Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 and on Monday released the update to its Download Center, a move it hopes will help inspire the channel's confidence in the software. Power Pack 1 fixes a data corruption bug in the software that first arose last December. Now that the issue has been addressed, solution providers are expecting a surge in demand for Home Server, which is designed for multiple-PC households that need to store.

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Microsoft has released an update to Windows Home Server that fixes a data-corruption problem some users were having with the software. The update, Power Pack 1 Final Release, also adds support for PCs running x64 versions of Windows Vista, and improves remote access and power-consumption features of the product, according to Microsoft.

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Microsoft has just released Power Pack 1 for their Windows Home Server software. Similar to a service pack for other versions of Windows, the Power Pack includes a number of bug fixes and improvements designed to enhance the overall experience the consumer has with the software.

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There have been rumours floating about what all Microsoft's next operating system will have. However, most of these have been mere speculations. For the first time recently Microsoft publicly demoed Windows 7 at a news conference. The high point of the new OS, called Windows 7 presently, is the "multi-touch" interface.
Other than, the touchy feely look, the demo also showed a user manipulating photos, browsing a map and playing an onscreen piano with simple one and two-finger taps and gestures.

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This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7 has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time.
It's an unlikely position for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which the Redmond company is keeping tight under wraps for now. And even more so as, following the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, the past week in Houston, Texas, where the software giant indicated that it was focusing entirely on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

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The start-up this week unleashed - if you can use such a word for a company with 15 paying corporate customers - a shiny new version of Fastscale Composer Suite. Up to this point, the code has been locked down to Red Hat servers and applications, but it'll now stretch to Windows Server 2003 as well. In addition, the revamped suite adds some new application shrinking tools for corporate software.

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It's a decent list. I've been suggesting removing backwards compatibility and including an XP virtual machine for a while (19). Gaming mode (17) reminds me of the DOS/3.1 days when my autoexec.bat/config.sys were scripted to boot up in one of several different ways depending on the requirements of my game, or just for regular work. At least 20, 10 and probably a couple more are asking for it to be more like Linux.

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If there is one thing that Microsoft is more mute than Windows 7, then it’s Windows 7 Server. While the Redmond company has been saying close to nothing about the successor of Windows Vista, it has managed to keep the lid even more tight on the next iteration of the Windows server operating system. But make no mistake about it, just as Windows 7 is designed to be the next major release of the Windows client.

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Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 and this update provides the final release. Now, it's available to TechNet Plus Subscribers.

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To best accommodate leading-edge customers adopting new technology, NetIQ Corporation, an Attachmate business, today announced that NetIQ AppManager is now compatible with Windows Server 2008 (WS08). AppManager customers can manage, diagnose and analyse performance, availability and server health, and report on key performance indicators for WS08 from a single console view. These metrics can then be used to tune initial WS08 deployments, and guide subsequent server roll-outs.

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Windows 2008 Server users can now run remote Windows applications and desktops seamlessly and secure on any Windows, Apple or Linux desktop. The new 2X ApplicationServer for Windows 2008 Terminal Server is available for free at: http://www.2x.com/applicationserver/application-publishing.htm. Up to now, Windows 2008 Terminal Server application and desktop publishing only ran on Vista clients.

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Microsoft on Monday said it would launch in mid-November a series of products aimed at small businesses that need up-to-date computer technology but lack large IT staffs to handle installation and maintenance. The company said it would ship Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 on November 12. The company also said trial versions of both products are now available for download through a Microsoft site called MultiplyYourPower.com.

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AXIGEN has released yet another version of its messaging solution: AXIGEN Mail Server 6.1 Beta for Windows operating systems. The new beta release runs on Windows Server 2003 and on Windows XP platforms, bringing all the high-end functionalities of the Axigen messaging solution to Windows users.

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Once Microsoft released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on June 26, 2008 it wasn't long before I upgraded the beta installation that I have been using for a month or two. Setup of Hyper-V is as simple as adding an additional role to Windows Server 2008 and the following screen shots describe the process in detail.

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ISVs can now receive a special Hyper-V designation to support the Certified On or Works-With certifications for Windows Server 2008 applications. The designation lets those considering your software that it has passed compliance testing for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Basically to receive the "Certified for" designation, an application needs to pass all the test cases in a Windows Server 2008 virtual machine on a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

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