Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files

[HEXUS]

Microsoft has acknowledged in a recent knowledge base article that a bug in its Windows Home Server software causes files to become corrupted when using certain programs to save data to the server.

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[Moby-Dick]

Not an ideal situation , however it might help people to remeber to take regular backups !

[this_is_gav]

It's obviously not as serious as is being made out, or there'd be mass threads on the issue, but as far as problems and bugs go, that's a stupidly serious one. How wasn't this picked up on during the (public) RC phase?

[Splash]

Not an ideal situation , however it might help people to remeber to take regular backups !

Hmm - while I can see your point of view (and I haven't read the article as yet, so I'm not sure exactly what the situation is) WHS is sold as a backup solution for home users (among other things). Anyhoo, I've not seen this on my box.

[directhex]

i'm not going to be smug on this issue. it'd be mean on the poor fools who bought into this tripe

[speedrat]

i'm not going to be smug on this issue. it'd be mean on the poor fools who bought into this tripe

Oh congrats on not being smug.

BTW I installed WHS and love it. I spend many hours at work tinkering with other OS and don't feel like doing the same at home. So how is your version of MHS running??....You do have a copy to make an informed opinion, right?

[Izmunuti]

It's obviously not as serious as is being made out, or there'd be mass threads on the issue, but as far as problems and bugs go, that's a stupidly serious one. How wasn't this picked up on during the (public) RC phase?

You pretty much answered your own question there. Given the apparent absence of threads on the issue it's clearly not a common problem and so presumably not one that could be picked up on with a limited install base.