Microsoft is definitely going to talk — at long last — about its plans for Windows Home Server (code-named “Quattro” “Q” ) at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Windows Home Server will be a Vista-based system, not a Windows Server-based one.

When Microsoft Server and Tools chief Bob Muglia let it slip in an online chat back in June 2005 that Microsoft was contemplating a “home-server” SKU, he made it seem that it would be Windows-Server-based. Muglia also told chat participants more than a year ago.

“We are always looking for new opportunities where server technology can be leveraged, and the home definitely represents an exciting new area that we are looking at along with many others. Much of the great storage, replication, and management technology would be great in a home,” Muglia said. “We have seen many people install Small Business Servers at home, which really works quite well.”

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