Hehe, its almost end of beta and going into RC stages, so anyone got any opinions on it?

Those who don't know, think network attached storage running Windows Server and actually quite good, it seems to do a good job from what I've seen from playing with it in VMware lol.

So it's just to run a NAT?

It is a NAS, but it does alot more, it basically tells you if any pc you own is lacking in anything, like antivirus and it all backs up every pc on the fly and gets some nice compression due to SIS

So it's an automated network checker and backup?

Hmm, something like that.

Interesting... Probably cost a bombshell, though...

Doubt it, as its aimed as a home product, it shouldn't cost that much.

And if people don't want the hardware, theyre gonna offer the software only version for about the cost of an OEM Vista licence I think.

Hmm, I still think it'll cost a fair bit.

We'll see

It should be an Ultimate extra. Should be, but it won't be.

Oh yea, if that were the case, that would be fantasitc. Unfortunantly Microsoft see themself not being able to afford being able to give it as one (probabily).

Hah, yeah, money grabbing <I AM INSULTING PEOPLE>, lol.

What, like there are 7 different versions of Windows Vista and 11 of Office 2007?

that many?

But there's only one version of Mac OS X.

Yup, because Apple take the simplicity is bliss route... And don't make you pay 5 times as much for some important or major features.