It was never a product people had rushed to buy, mostly filling a niche market among computer and technology enthusiasts.įor those that had a spare PC or enough parts lying around dormant, it also became a good opportunity to repurpose hardware. Source: Įxposure was relatively limited – either by a manufacturer, HP and Acer in particular who built small NAS-style systems with WHS preloaded, or via system builder OEM channels such as the copy I have.
Slide from a Microsoft presentation circa 2008. Ten years on, the strategic direction has been generally to push consumers from home up to mid-sized businesses to utilise Microsoft 365 cloud-based services. Services such as OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) and Azure were only in their infancy at this time, so the focus had still been all on-premise offerings. Dump all your documents, photos, and media into one location, stream your media to other devices, automate and store backups for computers around the home, and access your files whilst you’re away.Īs shown in this slide originally to cover Small Business Server 2008, WHS had been mentioned for the multi-PC home market. What was the point of Windows Home Server (WHS)? It’s primary role was for the most part a workgroup file server.
Among the parts to piece this PC together, was a copy of Windows Home Server purchased for under $100 AUD. My logic was that it would be a more useful and neater solution than purchasing several external USB hard disks over time. It was driven by storing internet downloads mostly, and so I built a rather modest Intel i3-based (1st-gen Westmere) PC for this task. Whilst the 1990s was a time when households may have purchased their first computer, the following decade saw an increase in multiple computers potentially leading to having your data all over the place, such as on USB memory sticks.īy 2010, I decided to have a home server.
In 2007, Microsoft announced and later released Windows Home Server as a way to improve data management around the home.
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