Sat, Feb 5 2005 19:28
bradley
Isn't that just a kewl idea Garrick has?
From a blog post by Garrick
An idea I just had
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a product similar to MS Small Business Server 2003, but called MS Home Server 2003 (or MS Home Server 2005 or something). It would be similar to SBS, but oriented toward home networks rather than business networks. It would probably have the same kind of components as SBS, but with maybe a hard limit of 5 clients (no additional licenses possible to add) and would have features more oriented toward home apps rather than business apps. Outlook/Exchange would be there, and the SharePoint portal server would be there, but geared for a "family" website, with built in photo sharing, blogging, personal webpages, etc. MS could include either antivirus and anti-adware stuff on the server to push down to clients. And to keep it from working in corporate environments, it would only allow XP Home clients, through some secret way that MS would have of unlocking the ability to join a domain.
Oh man ...woudn't it be though?
Except for the e-home of the future can I have a robot that does the dishes and hangs up my clothes automagically? Something that will automagically hang them up as I change into the “home clothes” so I don't have to pick them up off the floor.
Wonder if I can mswish that one?
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