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U.S. Government Prepares For Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battening-down-the-hatches dept.

IO ERROR writes "Patrick Svenburg, program manager for Windows Client Solutions in Microsoft Federal, answered questions from government IT managers today about the upcoming Windows Vista release. Many of the questions were about BitLocker, Microsoft's new drive encryption technology, as well as other security questions, upgrading from Windows XP, IPv6 deployment and more. Svenburg is a member of the Windows Vista Launch Team and is leading early adoption efforts for Windows Vista within the Federal community, according to Government Computer News."

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  1. [OT] Threadwatch - 7 hours and counting by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still got no threading and its been over 7 hours.

    You don't know how much you miss something until its gone do you?

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  2. Early Adoption? by WannabeAnonymous · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Svenburg is a member of the Windows Vista Launch Team and is leading early adoption efforts for Windows Vista within the Federal community" The USG should adopt a policy of never being an early adopter. Recently-released software generally has too many bugs to be used safely.

  3. Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate- the OS of by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Child pornographers. I notice none of these people asked the obvious question about the destructive potential of BitLocker on the science of computer forensics.

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  4. Re:U.S. Government Audit Vista Source Code by leenks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they choose to licence the source code, then yeah, sure. They've done it with previous releases.

  5. Why Do They Care? by Watson+Ladd · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why does the government, esp. the DoD even use windows in the first place? I see 3 kinds of users of goverment computers:
    1. The secretary level(basic Word, Excel,..). Something else would work fine.
    2. The Critical Service Level. Windows should be driven far away
    3. The Scientific User. They mostly use Linux anyway. The one exception is CAD.
    So only the CAD'ers might need Vista, but they probably don't. So why does the gov care? And did I make a mistake in the list?
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  6. is bitlocker still nerfed? by v1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I recall a comment some months ago that bitlocker was this impenetrable wall of security, unless you're the admin, in which case you own it. (sort of like the master password feature in OS X's filevault, but manditory) Did they do away with this yet?

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  7. Re: Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate- the OS by 0racle · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate- the OS of Child pornographers. I notice none of these people asked the obvious question about the destructive potential of BitLocker on the science of computer forensics.
    Maybe there are people in the world that are not so stupid as to believe that only people doing illegal things encrypt their files.
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