MS readies Windows Home Server 2011

Microsoft this week revealed that Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 and Windows Small Business Essentials 2011 had both reached release to manufacturing closing the development stage of both platforms, notes We Got Served.

The corporation revealed that both products would be available in 19 languages, extending the reach of the WHS platform into new territories.

The new list of languages include Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

WHS, which is based on Windows Server 2008 R2, allows underlying hardware to share files and back up data for up to 10 separate PCs, says ZDNet.

It handles printer sharing, remote access capabilities for WHS-controlled computers, and media streaming. It will also track the antivirus and firewall status of computers on the network.

According to The Inquirer, Microsoft's WHS 2011 is the second version of the one which was first released in 2007 and generally well received.

However, Microsoft raised the ire of users when it revealed that it was dropping the popular Drive Extender feature in the 2011 release.