Windows Home Server could be great all they had to do was take Windows Server 2003 which is a good product (although not quite great) and cripple it to only handle five users, remove some large commercial components, and add a the audio/video layer and cheesy consumer interface wrapper.

Benefits:

- Only one software pool to maintain.

- No new bugs to work out

- Encourage development for home server products that may have application for business servers too.

Now they have another (Vista being the other) OS that does not do what it is supposed to do - make your computer more useful and pleasant to use.