Myself along with millions of people have been pre-ordering Windows 7 Home Premium, especially with the special price of £49.99. Professional was also available but for double the cost and as I was in a rush to order it I thought the main difference was the ability to join a Domain and some extras like Backup and Restore.
However if like me you're a Windows Home Server owner, we should have purchased Windows 7 Professional, for one big reason – Remote Desktop.
Those of you currently running Windows XP Home or Windows Vista Home Premium may have tried to access and control those computers remotely using your home server, and found that you can’t. That’s because so called 'consumer' versions of Windows cannot act as a remote desktop host. Hosting remote desktop connections is considered a 'business-level' feature, and is only available in XP Pro and Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate. To be honest and embarresed I was not aware of this as I had always used Windows Vista Ultimate. When it came to purchase Windows 7 I thought I didn't use a lot of features that came with Vista Ultimate so dropping to Windows 7 Home Premium seemed like a good idea. Apparantly I was wrong.
So with regard to Windows 7, you’ll see that editions up to and including Windows 7 Home Premium cannot be accessed using a remote desktop connection, whilst Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate do have this feature enabled.
So if you use Home Server I strongly recommend you go for Windows 7 Professional.
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Strange restriction, hopefully that by the time we get hold of our pre-orders some movement would have happened on this.
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