Comments on: Home Server Shipments to Rise from 1.2 Million to 90 Million in 2015

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:21:41 +0000

The Firefox number is 8 million. You added an extra “1″, but nice job anyway. And yeah, generally “free” things get scooped up more quickly than things that require you to buy a computer, genius.

And you *do* need a high cost solution if you want automatic imaged incremental backups of Windows clients. But then again, if you think you’re right then prove it and provide a link to a free solution that provides this.

By: Hammer Time

Hammer Time — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:27:27 +0000

Home Servers Shipment are like how Microsoft counts Vista sales, that is licenses sold with pre-loaded PC’s to OEM/RTM, not actually retailed PC purchases. And of those actually sold, all XP downgrades don’t count, thanks to Microsoft’s method here as well. You must buy Vista to get XP, and those numbers are counted for Vista only.

The actual WHS sold numbers are very low, especially when you consider how Firefox users downloaded in one day some 18 million FREE copies whereas the entire whole home server market claimed here in a years time only experienced just 1.2 million shipments (not retails, not purchased, and not actual sales).

And at this point, in the home server market, you don’t need a high cost server just to backup your data, which WHS doesn’t even provide a default method of backing up the WHS operating system database even with PP1, being how Microsoft took away this advertised feature after many months telling everyone about it.

So WHS isn’t even able to backup itself, and that’s suppose to be a backup solution? Do pigs fly?

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:44:28 +0000

This sounds like a bunch of BS. PC-based vs CE-based? Is HP’s MediaSmart Server considered a CE device? Or does the OS simply have to be called “Embedded” to classify the device as a CE system.