Microsoft Comes Clean About Critical Windows Home Server Bug
Date: Tuesday, January 01 @ 12:22:28 UTC
Topic: Off Topic
Microsoft released more details about a critical bug in its Windows Home Server software (spotted last week) that has the capability to corrupt data on storage devices that run the WHS software. On Saturday it told Computerworld magazine that a bug could corrupt the data stored on systems that were under an "extreme load."
Windows Home Server is an operating system used by many hardware makers such as Hewlett-Packard, Iomega, and Gateway. These hardware manufacturers have planned or have already released storage devices based on the Windows Home Server operating system.
Microsoft representatives told Computerworld it is being proactive about alerting users to potential data corruption problems. Gregg Keizer, Computerworld reporter quotes Todd Headrick, the product planning manager on the Windows Home Server (WHS) team who said the Home Server has to be under an extreme load while doing a large file copy. Headrick added that the flaw comes into play only in instances when the file server's cache is full and the user is editing a file previously saved to a shared folder.
Microsoft's release of Windows Home Server was delayed several times before its final release. In August '07 HP said it had to delay the release of its MediaSmart Server because Microsoft needed more time to make fixes and make small improvements to WHS operating system.
Although Microsoft never officially gave WHS a launch date, Microsoft senior product manager Joel Sider said in July the first hardware wave would probably hit in late September or early October. In January, when Microsoft unveiled WHS at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said the software would roll out "in the back-to-school-ish time."
HP was the first company to release hardware based on the WHS software in its MediaSmart Server line in November 2007. Microsoft says it's working very hard to develop a fix to this problem. In the meantime Microsoft is advising its customers not to edit files stored on the Windows Home Server with the following programs:
Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery
OneNote 2003
OneNote 2007
Outlook 2007
Microsoft Money 2007
SyncToy 2.0 Beta
News-Source: pcworld.com
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