Now to claim that competitors have never shipped a bug that can destroy data is to be completely ignorant of the development of every major file system in existence, and of every virus scanner, disk utility, and other software that uses low-level file access in their early days. Data corruption bugs are serious, but not limited to Microsoft software.

Beyond that, your comparative scenarios are laughable. Why would the US Military want to run a product that’s designed for home use by consumers? How does using Windows Home Server compare in any way to health care, or food availability, or politicians?

Then Microsoft chose to release WHS to no less than 100,000 beta testers for more than half a year.

What is amazing is how someone can talk about confidence of customers, when everyone sees the lost of integrity of Microsoft’s own products.

And nobody thinks shipping a product such as WHS should be okay with a proven design flaw with data destroying corruption, as reported during the beta testing phase, or that’s it’s acceptable when it effects your customers files and data with annihilation, devastation and obliteration!

Beta testing is not the “final release” and may yet contain code that could be harmful to your PC. We only tried it on non-critical test machines, and we suggest you do the same.

The problem is, Windows Home Server isn’t being offered as BETA, it’s been “SOLD” as final complete and functioning RTM and OEM product.

Even Microsoft’s own fanboi club knows it’s competition doesn’t ship destructive data corruption design flaws and
works behind the scenes to orchestrate “independent” praise of Microsoft’s products in regards to any cost.

Imagine the U.S. government using WHS in the military? Want our troops to wait for June 2008 relief?

Imagine your medical doctor telling you, NO relief until June 2008!

Then image your local supermarket telling you, you can live without food until June 2008.

And of course, we all should be glad to hear from our political politicans that all this is acceptable to expect from a multi-billion dollar corporation that couldn’t test it’s own software products…

There is no creditable confidence to think shipping data destroying design flaws are acceptable for your customer experience…

If WHS isn’t ready for retail markets as a finished product, than by that logic no software is. No one piece of software can fill every absolute want and need of every absolute customer, particularly on its first release, nor can it be predicted what future wants and needs every absolute customer will have. If software companies all waited around continually adding features to a product that are wanted and needed by their potential customers before releasing it, the product would never be released.

Is every third party add-in or solution for WHS going to be unproven software?

How does that build confidence when your customers must contend with all the pains, hassles and issues of using buggy code?

All this beta crap, should have been done during the beta testing of more than 100,000 since last year around April 2007.

Is it any wonder why so many say, WHS still isn’t ready for the retail markets as a final finished product!