MS 'destroys' Windows Home Server

Software developer Microsoft has managed to do a good job of all but destroying Windows Home Server (WHS) by removing one of its main features, according to The Inquirer.

The Vole revealed the impending removal of the drive extender feature from the upcoming version of WHS, codenamed Vail.

This has led to widespread condemnation from current users, as drive extender was one of those rare things from Microsoft, a feature that was not really a bug, the report says. Drive extender allows users to plug in additional hard drives with WHS automatically expanding a logical disk volume to make use of the new drive.

Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry phone, says there is as yet no ban on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), which allows the secure exchange of e-mail among users of the device, reports Live Mint.

“RIM is here for a long run and there will be no ban in the future,” Robert Crow, vice-president for industry, government and university relations, says. Crow met home minister P. Chidambaram and home secretary G.K. Pillai to explain the status of its projects.

RIM officials said there was no deadline for providing access to BES services. “We have not received any communication that 31 December is the deadline for a (verbal or written) final solution for providing access to BES,” said an official present during the interaction.

The once almighty online giant America Online (AOL) seems to be having serious server problems that have been going on for about a week and making it seemingly impossible to sign up to the company's free services, writes Tech Eye.

AOL not only fired a boatload of employees at the beginning of the year, but this week it's also losing some of its Web journalists, too.

But little has been said of how many key technical personnel were lost as part of AOL's recent and past lay-offs, and how critical those assets were to the company.