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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…

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Acer Aspire Easystore H340 Review

Overview: I’m sure we’ve all been faced with the dilemma of running out of hard drive space, and wondering whether it would make more sense to upgrade an internal drive, or plunk down the money for an external solution.  When contemplating getting yet another hard drive to add to my system (as dictated by the paltry 24 GB I had left free on my last drive), I realized it was time to look into some sort of network addressed storage (NAS) instead of dogpiling another drive in the computer, or…

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