Software

The widespread Windows Home Server add-in Lights-Out is now available to eager testers for a trial and assessment on the new Windows Home Server Vail and  Windows Server Aurora platforms. Martin Rothschink, the author of Lights-Out, released a technical preview of the add-in on Sunday, October 3, 2010.

If you have not already heard, Microsoft announced on Sept. 30, that it’s web-based suite of free applications has moved out of beta to the final release.  Microsoft considers these applications as it’s flagship bundle of Web-based productivity apps for managing and sharing images online, editing video, and sharing documents and files between personal computers.

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Group Seven Technologies has released an maintenance update to DA Document Manager 2010.

There is good Apple news for home server and NAS owners . Over the weekend, an iTunes update with a number of feature enhancements and bug fixes was released. One such feature fix is the DAAP streaming issue, which prevented the display and streaming of tracks stored on network storage devices using Firefly Media Server.

Windows guru Bjoern Buerstinhaus is conducting a HUGE promotion with F-Secure on his Facebook fan page. For a limited time only (literally whilst supplies last) and little effort you can go and get your very own FREE fully licensed version of F-Secure Anti-Virus 2011.

Reports are in that Intel is testing the US market’s acceptance of $50 upgrade cards which will unlock faster processor speeds and other enhancements on supporting PCs.

Intel kicked off the second day of IDC Intel developers conference by officially launching its app store and rolling out new Atom processors.