vista hardware safeguards
March 12th, 2006 Posted in windows
Microsoft are possibly going to include some interesting safeguards to ensure that the computers that vista is loaded on, is approved by Microsoft.
‘WHEN MICROSOFT’S Vista arrives on machines, it looks like it may need a trusted platform model (TPM) chip to be present on the system.
That’s just one element of what Microsoft dubs “multi tiered data protection”, and the firm says that it will support full volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems.
Microsoft is not entirely clear what this implies, however. It says that the entire system partition is encrypted and that includes both the hibernation file and your data as well.’
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