Despite being aimed at home users, remote access to your computers from outside the home wouldn’t work if you had home versions of Windows installed on your computers.Īpart from that castration by Management, WHS still had some very clever and innovative technology under the hood: Technically, it was pretty solid, but of course, Microsoft Management had got involved, and one of the potentially unique selling points had been removed.
There were some issues that I found, but by the time of release, the majority had been resolved. I, along with thousands of others, had been testing the software at home prior to release. The first version of WHS was released to manufacturing in July 2007. His idea went through more iterations until in February 2004, work began on a project called “Quattro” and that resulted in a product group to be formed in 2005 to produce what was to become Windows Home Server. A long time ago, way back in 1999, a man by the name of Charlie Kindel had an idea: Microsoft was developing Windows for home PCs, why shouldn’t it develop Windows for a home server as well? His managers initially told him to focus on his real job, but his idea surfaced at CES in 2000 as a technology prototype called “Bedrock” focused on home automation and family applications.