Microsoft’s Zune media player will finally arrive on Canadian store shelves in June. There will be 3 versions: 4GB, 8GB and 80GB, retailing for $140 to $250. Starting today, you can join the party early by downloading Zune software, although music and video purchases won’t be available for the foreseeable future.
That is what Microsoft is asking in its latest PR moves to pimp promote its Windows Home Server. What Home Server does is to act as a file server, a print server, remote access to your files and even automatically back up all your computers on the network in its drives. Most machines come with 1 drive, but there’s room for 3 more hard-drives making it perfect for houses with more than 1 computer on the network.
Unfortunately, selling this to mainstream consumer is difficult as most do not realize the benefits of a home server. Microsoft aims to change that by… publishing a children’s book about it.
Here’s an excerpt:
When a mommy and daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift.
So he buys a stay-at-home server.
Then he installs it.
It’s easy!
He does it all by himself.
The scary part is, this is an actual book that is available, and not just an internet banner advertisement.
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