Bill Gates’ Last Day At The Office video at the Consumer
Electronics Show was quite a hit, but it appears to have been eclipsed among
geek attendees by the media marketing power of a simple picture book - Mommy, why is there a
server in the house?

This faux children???s book explains why home media servers
are the coming thing.� Gizmodo has
captured each lovingly illustrated page and lines like: "When a mommy and
daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special
gift."

Microsoft Watch points out this is part of the company???s
Stay-At-Home Server marketing campaign. There are billboard ads at CES featuring
a ???mom??? saying: ???I admire a server secure enough to stay home with the kids.???

Whoever thought servers could be humanised? Hats off
to Microsoft for this one, although these machines hardly need the publicity ???
HP says it sold three months of inventory in the new category in the first
three weeks.