For those of you waiting for our awesome HP MediaSmart Server video, some bad news: the pre-production unit we got was a lemon. Not sure whether to blame HP or Microsoft. Oh well, we can blame both, at least for this weekend. Good thing we already reviewed the software and squeezed all the details out of the UI.

After a very long wait, the FedEx man has finally delivered the HP MediaSmart Server. Chen gave you a look at a Windows Home Server last week, so you got a feel for the basic software package. Now we're taking it to the consumer level: HP's is the first fully configured official WHS product out of the gate.

Microsoft says its Windows Home Server software has been released to manufacturing. Iomega and Fujitsu Siemens will join HP in making home-server products; various editions of the software will also be distributed a la carte. [Technet]