Once I have a Windows Home Server platform to store, distribute and backup files and media, what a killer feature it would be to make it a Home Media Center Server as well. To use a laptop, desktop or XBox 360 as Media Center extenders using the same great menu’ing experience available from Windows Vista Ultimate. This would allow a household to truly centralize all of their files and even control distribution since they would be streamed through what is essentially a remote desktop extender interface.
Without an interface like this, all my photos and music are locked up in a server where it becomes impractical or cumbersome to index media as a remote network resource. What would be the point? I would just keep my media files on my Vista Ultimate box and back them up to an external drive like I always do.
Liberate my media! Make Windows Home Server a must have home product and make it a Media Center Server. It seems like the only way to access the demographic that would pay for the an additional server at home.