Hewlett Packard now has its fingers around the Windows House Server (WHS) update for which it decided to delay its MediaSmart Residence Server.
HardwareGeeks.com received Microsoft to verify that HP now has the WHS patch. The Windows enthusiast web page also is reporting that Microsoft is planning an announcement on Tuesday,
Office 2007 Product Key, September 25, concerning the availability of the WHS update.
At the end of August,
Purchase Windows 7, Microsoft officials acknowledged they had been functioning on the post-RTM (release-to-manufacturing) WHS update would make the platform additional appealing to developers. Microsoft stated at that time that it planned to create the update accessible in a couple of weeks.
HP admitted in late August that it planned to delay its original WHS shipments so as to incorporate the Microsoft WHS update — leading some to question exactly what was inside the update and why it seemed to impact HP more than other WHS vendors. HP;s new official due date for its MediaSmart Server: Holiday season 2007. (Originally, HP was expected to be first out with the WHS gate,
Office Professional, shipping MediaSmart Server on September 15.)
Philip Churchill, a Microsoft beta tester and principal using the independent Microsoft Windows Residence Server Internet web site, posted earlier this month a chart listing tentative WHS due dates from various Microsoft partners. Churchill;s chart came from a recent Microsoft presentation at the recent IFA consumer-electronics show in Berlin.
Based on this new data,
Microsoft Office Home And Business 2010, the only WHS vendor which seems to have pushed back substantially its WHS release as a result of Microsoft;s WHS update is HP. (Note: It;s not clear whether these dates are specific to Europe or not.) The WHS availabilty list:
Medion: October 2007
MaxData: October 2007
Chili Green: October 2007
Fujitsu Siemens: November 2007
Lacie: November 2007
Leo: November 2007
HP: January 2008
I asked HP concerning the alleged January 2008 date. A spokesperson sent the following statement:
“We have said that the (MediaSmart) server will be readily available through HP;s U.S. channel partners in time for the holidays. It;s generally true that products are on the market first inside the U.S. and then inside the rest of the World.”
I wonder whether the other WHS vendors decided against including the Microsoft WHS update in their preliminary releases and,
Office 2010 Discount, instead, expect customers to download WHS patches themselves. Perhaps Microsoft will share a lot more specifics next week….