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Microsoft site states that Vista Enterprise is not on the Vista DVD with Home/HP/Business/Ultimate. It is a completely seperate entity. feel like i'm on star trek when I say entity.
Make sense, as you can't get a (retail) license for it. Only through a license agreement with MS, like volume licensing.
In short, BitLocker "locks" your hard drive - so if it's stolen, no one can get the data from it.
Let's expand on that.
BitLocker encrypts the contends of your hard drive, using volume encryption. This protection is achieved by encrypting the entire Windows volume. All user and system files are encrypted including the swap and hibernation files.
To be able to do this, it relies on a chip, called a TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
According to what I was told by MS you should aim to have a TPM 1.2 for the full benefits of Vista's BitLocker. v 1.2 is the current implementation, but you might still run into computers with the old 1.1 version.
Intel is planning to integrate the TPM capabilites into the southbridge chipset in 2008.
It's not a VPN (virtual private network) it's a VM (virtual machine). All it is is a program that will run another OS on your current system. For example, I'm running Vista on my system now. In order to answer questions about XP, I've installed a copy of XP on the VM that I have on my system (I'm actually using the MS VM 2007 beta rather than the Express thingie). So, I've got a window that I open that has XP running in it as a separate system within that window.
Windows Vista Ultimate = Windows XP Professional (without SP1, not to mention SP2)
Windows Vista Home Premium = Windows XP Home = Windows 98 (not SE)
Windows Vista Home Basic = WIndows 95
I dare not to try Windows Vista Enterprise. At least in the next 18 months.
By the way, I serious consider moving from Windows XP Prof SP2 to Windows Vista Home Premium is a DOWNGRADE, not an upgrade!
How do you figure that? I ran Vista RTM for 2 1/2 months and I was shocked at how well it performed. No crashes, no blue screens and FAST application execution.
