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Microsoft releases Vail Server public preview

On Monday, Microsoft released the public preview of of the latest home server, codenamed Vail. Interestingly, they’ve dropped the word “Home” from the naming convention, which goes in line with the rumours that they may also be targeting this software for very small businesses as well.  You can get yourself a copy to try out here.

There’s a lot of new features in Vail. The two major changes are significant. On the surface, the UI has been given the Windows 7 treatment, and at the heart of it, Vail is based on Server 2008 Server 2008 R2, which is a much wanted upgrade from current Server 2003 based Windows Home Server found in machines like the Acer Easystore and HP MediaSmart line of home server products. It’s worth noting that at this point, it appears that Vail will only be 64 bit, which means anyone with an Acer Easystore won’t be performing an upgrade because of the 32 bit only Atom chip on board.

We haven’t had much time to play with it, but there’s some great in-depth coverage over at We Got Served, which happens to be my favourite WHS site.

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