What to do with this OLD PC, you ask?
With the personally identifiable information stored deep within the hard-drives of most unsuspecting PC users’ machines, what is it that should be done prior to disposal? In fact, what would be an environmentally friendly decision regarding such disposal, not to mention an option to secure older and often forgotten personal information? Microsoft to the rescue…
Windows Home Server to be sold sans hardware
System builders can use it to convert old PCs into servers
Gregg Keizer
May 16, 2007 (Computerworld) — In a speech yesterday at WinHEC 2007 in Los Angeles, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates confirmed that users will be able to retrofit older PCs themselves with Windows Home Server (WHS) when it ships later this year.
Originally, the new server operating system was expected to be available only as part of turnkey home servers delivered by the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Gateway Inc. But Microsoft recently hinted that it might reconsider that idea, leading to Gates’ announcement that the software would indeed be sold to system builders. The move will allow end users to recycle older PCs as servers.
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