Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge?

mustafap writes "UK tech site The Register is reporting on security guru Bruce Schneier's observation that the disk encryption system to be shipped with Vista, BitLocker, will make dual booting other OSs difficult - you will no longer be able to share data between the two." From the article: "This encryption technology also has the effect of frustrating the exchange of data needed in a dual boot system. 'You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot,' Schneier told El Reg. Schneier said Vista will bring forward security improvements, but cautioned that technical advances are less important than improvements in how technology is presented to users."

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Re:Nerds Band Together

[Mr. Underbridge]

What are you, his fucking pimp? I tell you, as the slashdit community, we should threaten to hack his site and reset his counter (and delete his access_log file for good measure) unless he promises to post pictures. I mean, what the hell do we get out of getting this guy his 3-way?

Are you a hypocrite?

[Qbertino]

I read this and shrugged my shoulders. Who cares?
All the people here getting all worked up seem to be really addicted to Windows. I just ran Win2K the other day - considering to use it as a webdev plattform. Took me 10 minutes to drop that idea once again. Task Manger had 30+ processes running and was slowpoking about as if it were my old Cyric 150Mhz CPU. God, does that OS suck.
I'm sticking with Mac OS X and Linux. I really couldn't care less about Windows. And you shouldn't either.