Review by PGM

I have been installing Windows systems since Windows for Work Groups and this is not a winner.

If you are not an experienced IT person,then you should just buy a preinstalled version from HP or whomever.

This is basically a bastardized SBS 2003 (with some fancy peer backup programs that use WIM files) that will not let you run most,if not all user desktop apps.

This is M$ marketing at work at it’s most fiendish.

Here are a list of issues:nn1)It cannot be used as a workstation,so forget about installing Office or whatever without having to hack the user account settings.

2)A number of printers (Brother networked all in ones)will not work because the install program will not recognize the OS.

3)Updates quit working after a while.

4)Admin is a nightmare,in that the client piece has trouble updating from the main server piece.

The price has dropped from $[…] bucks list to about $[…] in less than a year.

You want to know why?nnIt’s going to be ditched reeeeeeeal soon ,as in dead product!nnGet XP or Win7 and buy a 3rd part backup program like Acronis or Bounce back and run these in a peer mode.

This product is a certified loser!nnCan you say ME or Vista?