Agree that data is king. It seems to me that one of the primary functions of a good consumer system should be protecting us from our laziness in this regard.
Windows Home Server and Time Capsule are pretty feeble efforts.
It is interesting that M$ went with UAC ... but no attention to password control and limited work on backup facilities.
Of course they do not have the consumer viewpoint as their primary focus. Ironically it seems to me that signing customers up to data protection in the cloud would be simple and lucrative step for M$.
I regard HP's WHS Mediasmart as a pure monetising play. Shoulda built those hot swap disks into a standard PC.
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