Introducing Windows Home Server
Windows Home Server helps families with multiple PCs centralise and connect their digital experiences, providing a familiar, easy and reliable way to store, share, and automatically protect what is most important. This smart hub brings together all the important stuff that's on your customers' PCs - in a new, fun, and easy way.
With Windows Home Server your customers can share video clips over the Web, stream family's tunes through their Xbox 360™, and even access their home server when they're not at home to retrieve files from almost anywhere with an Internet connection. More than 50 million households globally have a broadband connection and own at least two personal computers*.
*Source: IDC Worldwide Home Networking 2006-2010 Forecast
How do I sell Windows Home Server?
Inform your customers of the benefits of installing Windows Home Server in a home that has more than one PC. These benefits include:
- Automatic daily backups of home PCs
- Restores lost files or an entire PC
- Provides access to data on the home server from networked PCs
- Shares photos and home videos through a personalised Web address
- Organises information in one central place
- Easy and quick to setup
- Provides an expandable storage space for future use
- Innovative third-party applications
Protect
With Windows Home Server your customer's files and PCs are backed up automatically every day, so they have peace of mind.
Home Server takes 'snapshots' of shared folders on your customers connected PCs to enable them to easily restore previous versions of any important files or folders that may have been accidentally deleted or modified.
With Home Server, your customers will find it simple to restore their entire home PCs or individual files or folders from backups stored on Windows Home Server. Your customers will benefit from an automated daily backup, which creates a full-image backup of their PCs and they can monitor the health of PCs on their home network.
Important data stored in user selected Shared Folders will have two copies stored on separate hard drives helping to provide protection against hard drive failure.
Connect
With Windows Home Server your customers can connect to and share family documents, photos, videos and music virtually wherever they are. They can share photos and family videos with friends and family with file-sharing via the web. Personalised internet address helps them and their friends/family easily connect to their Windows Home Server from virtually anywhere. They can stream media from Windows Home Server to their home PC so they can listen to music while watching a photo slideshow.
Organise
Windows Home Server simplifies documents, photos, videos and music, storing them in one shared location so your customers always know where to find files. Using a Media Hub, your customers can access media files from multiple PCs and network attached media players.
Windows Home Server is easy to set up: within minutes, and with virtually no technical knowledge, your customers can be up and running with Windows Home Server. They will find using their Home Server easy and seamless experience.
Grow
Windows Home Server easily expands so it will grow with your customers as their needs grow. A centralised data storage capacity grows as needed; there is no need to make choices as to what to keep and what to delete, your customers can keep it all.
What are the opportunities to make more margin?
Windows Home Server creates plenty of cross-sell opportunities for you to capture more revenue by providing your customers with software, hardware, and additional services generated by the capabilities of Windows Home Server. For example, you should recommend Windows Vista® Home Premium (or up-sell to Vista Ultimate), so that your customers can benefit from Windows Media Player. Windows Live™ OneCare™ will keep their systems protected and give them peace of mind. Add a webcam to provide the ultimate package.