More than in the Microsoft press tent at the Customer Electronics (CES) Demonstrate, Microsoft is showing off a couple of protypes of its just-announced Windows Household Server product. Despite the fact that there had been rumors circulating over the past month that Windows House Server would be according to Windows Vista, that's not the case, said item director Steven VanRoekel. Instead,
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