Comments in the same source a week or two ago revealed that this brand new Microsoft product, for HOME USERS who want to network all their computers and have a real server for backups and serving up programs and content, has something of a peculiarity - for a server.
While it does sound like a nice little toy, especially for the backup part of it, this new OS features advanced parental controls that seem to interact unpredictably with other programs, and to randomly delete random files from its hard drive(s).
ZD (eWeek/Microsoft Watch) is warning people NOT TO GET SUCKED IN - at least for now.
Microsoft is reported as "working on it." Based on recent past performance, "working on it" likely means they're trying to figure out how to claim that randomly disappearing files are a "feature" and it's good for you.
DO NOT BE MISLED though, by references you see to a "new OS" called "WinME II." That's just a pet name, used by a number of writers, for Vista.