RIP, Windows Home Server :(

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It was a good idea, I’ll say that. But Windows Home Server (WHS) never really caught on with consumers for a variety of perfectly legitimate reasons, and when the most recent (and just second) version of the product appeared last year sans Drive Extender, I suspected, like many others, that the end was near. Today, it’s official: Windows Home Server has been cancelled by Microsoft.

I use Windows Home Server 2011, the current version, as the center of my home network. This was the subject of some controversy, as WHS 2011 lacked the Drive Extender technology—which provided data replication and single pool of storage functionality—that many felt was the entire point of the product.

I understood the frustration around the demise of Drive Extender but disagreed (still do) that its lack undermined the central point of this server. In my September 2011 review of Windows Home Server, I highlighted the product’s key features—automatic and centralized PC backups, automatic server backup, home network health monitoring, content storage and sharing, and remote access—and my adoption of a cloud backup service called Crashplan.

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