From All About Microsoft

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"The Windows installed base will hit the 1 billion mark by the end of Microsoft’s fiscal 2008 (which ends on June 30), according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.

“There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point,” Ballmer told attendees of the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) in Redmond on July 26. (I’m here in person, up in the media rafters.)"

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From Reuters.uk

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"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) had sold 60 million Windows Vista licenses as of the end of June, including 20 million copies sold since mid-May, the company said on Thursday.

The world’s largest software maker disclosed the new sales figures on Vista, the latest version of its dominant Windows operating system released on Jan. 30, at its annual meeting with financial analysts."

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While you may have heard of BitLocker, what you may not know is that you don’t need Trusted Platform Module to use it on your system. BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new security feature integrated into the Windows Vista operating system that provides Read More……(read more)

While you may have heard of BitLocker, what you may not know is that you don’t need Trusted Platform Module to use it on your system.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new security feature integrated into the Windows Vista operating system that provides considerable protection to the OS and data stored on the operating system volume.  BitLocker ensures that data stored on a computer running Windows Vista remains encrypted even if the computer is tampered with when the operating system is not running.  This helps protect against “offline attacks” — those made by disabling or circumventing the installed operating system, or by physically removing the hard drive to attack the data separately.  In other words, attacks made when the system is not running.

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption provides increased security by encrypting everything on your hard drive: data, programs and even Windows itself.  When you use BitLocker, your system is more difficult to tamper with, and thus you are better protected if your computer is ever lost or stolen.  BitLocker does not replace the need to use a strong password and other vital security features, but it does make it much harder for anyone else to

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When you call up the file security dialog,
you’ll see options like “Full Control” and “Read and Execute”.
That’s really nice as friendly names go,
but when you’re digging into the security descriptor,
you may need to know what those permissions really Read More……(read more)