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posted on 22 July 2008 14:12

Microsoft's Home server, a networked backup to disk server for the home, has finally had its file corruption bug fixed, nine months after its existence became known to users.

The bug was hard to fix because the Home Server file system was fundamentally at fault and fixes had to be tsted at length to ensure operations depending on the file system didn't break in turn.

Microsoft states, regarding the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1: "Power Pack 1 provides a range of new enhancements, including support for home computers running Windows Vista x64 editions, backup of home server Shared Folders, improvements to remote access, more efficient power consumption and better performance. And, of course, it delivers a fix for the data corruption bug."

This almost 'by the way' mention of the bug fix might be thought quite amazing and indicative of an attitude that just did not take the problem seriously enough. On the other hand, problems deep in fundamental code can take an awful lot of fix effort, like re-engineering the tip of an upside-down pyramid.

^{[Martin Edwards, news writer.]}