Waiting…
July 10th. That’s how long I’ve been waiting for my trial version of Windows Home Server. It’s really not good enough. Just email after email apologizing for the delay. But NO software. I don’t understand. How can it take this long to find a version and ship it? 6 weeks so far apparently. But it’ll be even longer. Microsoft said it’ll let me know when it has stock again. I look every day, but no luck so far.
Why do I want Windows Home Server? Well I read it was pretty good at automatic backups and remote connection. Hmmm. But that was back in July.
Now I am using Windows Mesh (and I’ll write about that soon) and for the most part that serves both purposes. Maybe this is really a ploy by the sad software giant to push people away from loading new software and instead push them to the web for a solution.
UPDATE: My package arrived
September 1st, 2008 at 7:02 am
Hi John;
As the email from the Microsoft Care Team suggested, we are in a back order situation. The cause was inefficient manufacturing of the transition to new DVDs that include Power Pack 1. Please send me your shipping address and I’ll send you a copy of the original eval to you. Sorry about your wait.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:23 am
Well, many thanks to Microsoft for reading my lowly blog. My question is ‘how did they find out about it?’ Are they so far behind in back orders or just drumming up everywhere for extra business? Either way, it was really nice to someone to respond to me on my blog. And, as I said in a later post (http://blog.johncox.com/2008/08/26/waiting-update/), I did eventually get the software and I shall be loading it up and reporting back on it very soon.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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