WINHEC: Windows Home Server Plans Expand
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Microsoft has signed up more vendors to build hardware for its forthcoming Windows Home Server, expanding the sales channel for the company's first server OS aimed at home PC users.
U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc., French external storage maker LaCie Group SA and German consumer electronics company Medion AG will join Hewlett-Packard Co. in building hardware for the OS, and the company also will offer a version of Windows Home Server for custom system builders. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the news in a keynote Tuesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.