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RSS bitlockerVista SP1 beta sent to 12,000 testers
News The update is largely a collection of bug fixes and performance and compatibility improvements but includes some minor new features such as support for the ability to encrypt multiple hard drive partitions using Vista's BitLocker feature. [25 Sep 2007]
Gov't department readies for Vista rollout
News According to Defra, Vista's power management features will help reduce the department's carbon footprint while the BitLocker encryption system will boost security. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll... [15 May 2008]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News There are a few minor enhancements, most notably the ability to encrypt multiple hard drive partitions using Vista's BitLocker feature. After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details about its plans for the first update to Windows... [30 Aug 2007]
Redmond refreshes Longhorn Server build
News Known problems include issues with BitLocker encryption when a system wakes from hibernation, and incompatibility with the Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications. Microsoft has released a refresh to Longhorn Server Beta 2, which appeared in May... [14 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: Mobile device as security risk
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham, said: "Technologies like BitLocker [the drive encryption feature in Microsoft's forthcoming Vista release] are key as we increasingly deploy mobile devices for sensitive business... [02 Oct 2006]
Avoid Vista until 2008, business users told
News However, the BitLocker disk encryption feature and tools to manage devices such as USB keys will work only for some, he said in an interview. New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate anti-spyware or... [08 May 2006]
Microsoft readies "Quebec" embedded Vista OS
News The forthcoming Quebec embedded release will include BitLocker drive encryption, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Address-Space Load Randomisation - and on the memory-management front, support for SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and Dynamic System... [06 Jun 2008]
Seagate hypes laptop with built-in data lock
News Additionally, high-end editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system include an encryption feature called BitLocker. Seagate Technology has named the first manufacturer to sell laptops with its new built-in hard drive encryption technology. [12 Mar 2007]
Seagate to padlock mobile data
News Additionally, high-end editions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system include an encryption feature called BitLocker. Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology has provided more details on encryption technology designed to make life... [31 Oct 2006]
Windows Vista: Start planning now
News Frank Foxall, MD of Windows migration specialist Camwood, said the mobile access, search and Bitlocker encryption features will prove to be the reasons companies upgrade, but warned that compatibility with existing applications will be the main... [29 Nov 2006]
$10bn Vista launch is Microsoft's biggest ever
News The council is using Vista's BitLocker technology, which encrypts data on the hard drive, to secure laptops so that personal information cannot be accessed if they are lost. Windows Vista is the biggest product launch Microsoft has ever held for... [30 Nov 2006]
Windows Server 2008: Microsoft has listened to users
News Davis singled out the BitLocker drive encryption as a key feature as it will mean less time will be taken up responding to security incidents such as viruses. Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, is evidence that... [26 Feb 2008]
Gates: Security challenges to grow despite Vista
News He pitched BitLocker, a disk drive encryption feature in the higher-end version of Vista, as a way to lock down the data on a PC. Only last week, Microsoft released Windows Vista and Office 2007, promoted as the most secure versions of the... [07 Feb 2007]
New Vista preview comes out to play
News BitLocker Drive Encryption is meant to protect data on computers when lost or stolen. Microsoft on Monday released another preview version of Windows Vista, adding a number of security features, as well as performance and user interface functions. [20 Dec 2005]
Q&A: Microsoft UK MD Gordon Frazer
Comment We also see massive improvements in security because BitLocker enables you to encrypt the contents of your hard-drive. Microsoft's new UK MD, Gordon Frazer, has been in his role for just over three months after relocating from South Africa, where... [03 Nov 2006]
