I didn't say that. I also didn't say that no SOHO wouldn't buy Enterprise either.
However the majority of sales to the SOHO type market are Business and Home Premium. Giving Bitlocker to every person who buys Home Premium or Business would probably (IMHO) be dangerous. There'd be way too many cases of people who've encrypted their data and then their laptop's m/board needs to be replaced (or something similar), and these people simply haven't read through all the documentation on what needs to be done to ensure that you can get your data back. We have Bitlocker deployed here on nearly 5000 laptops, and all the planning was not a trivial exercise. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista/7 versions (was: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression) Because no SOHO will by Ultimate? There are so many other examples of wacked out feature split I'm comfortable with believing they're happy over complicating the versions for whatever reason. -- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression -----Original Message----- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression > [They should add: "Actually, you CAN'T protect your key information - > because we crippled this version and didn't provide encryption - > sorry!"] Well, encryption only protects you against one information loss vector (data at rest). There are many other ways to lose your data, and saying that you "CAN'T" protect your data because Bitlocker is missing is incorrect. That said, there's a tradeoff. If you lock yourself out of a bitlocker-ed machine, you're SoL. The support issues would be enormous for Microsoft dealing with poorly run SOHO type outfits that accidently enable Bitlocker without doing the necessary planning around key escrow/backup. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
