Prior to its big PDC coming out, company posts info online
(Computerworld) Hours before Microsoft Corp. executives trotted out Windows 7 at the company's developer conference, officials leaked some details about the impending alpha edition on Microsoft's own Web site.
In an extensive privacy statement devoted to Windows 7, the successor to the problem-plagued Windows Vista that Microsoft will tout today at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the company revealed several facts about the upcoming operating system.
Among the disclosures in the "Windows 7 Pre-release (M3) Privacy Supplement" were:
• Apparently, Windows 7 will come in multiple versions, as did Vista. In the section devoted to BitLocker, the all-disk encryption feature that debuted in Vista, Windows 7 will be available in both Enterprise and Ultimate editions.
• Driver Protection, a new feature, blacklists drivers known to be unstable and prevents them from loading. Microsoft will refresh the driver blacklist through Windows Update.
• Product activation will still be required. The activation process, which Microsoft first included with Windows XP, is designed to limit casual copying by tying a copy of the operating system to a specific PC. The privacy supplement did not spell out any differences between Windows 7 activation and the company's current practices.
• Customers will be able to do an in-place upgrade to a brawnier edition of Windows 7 with "Windows Anytime Upgrade," another tool that debuted in Vista.
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(Computerworld) Hours before Microsoft Corp. executives trotted out Windows 7 at the company's developer conference, officials leaked some details about the impending alpha edition on Microsoft's own Web site.
In an extensive privacy statement devoted to Windows 7, the successor to the problem-plagued Windows Vista that Microsoft will tout today at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the company revealed several facts about the upcoming operating system.
Among the disclosures in the "Windows 7 Pre-release (M3) Privacy Supplement" were:
• Apparently, Windows 7 will come in multiple versions, as did Vista. In the section devoted to BitLocker, the all-disk encryption feature that debuted in Vista, Windows 7 will be available in both Enterprise and Ultimate editions.
• Driver Protection, a new feature, blacklists drivers known to be unstable and prevents them from loading. Microsoft will refresh the driver blacklist through Windows Update.
• Product activation will still be required. The activation process, which Microsoft first included with Windows XP, is designed to limit casual copying by tying a copy of the operating system to a specific PC. The privacy supplement did not spell out any differences between Windows 7 activation and the company's current practices.
• Customers will be able to do an in-place upgrade to a brawnier edition of Windows 7 with "Windows Anytime Upgrade," another tool that debuted in Vista.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9118301&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
