In case you did not already know Microsoft have just publicly released a beta version of the Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ which is the code name of the next Windows Home Server.

One of the greatly enhanced features of ‘Vail’ is the remote access capability of all you media files stored on your home server via the internet by using a silverlight plug-in. I was also delighted to see that the remote access web site will support mobile html version that is viewable on the iPhone.

This is also not the only time Microsoft has supported the iPhone as they also previously announced that silverlight will stream video to the iPhone. You can check out their demo of this at http://www.iis.net/iphone

Check out the screenshots below…

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