Ultimate has an option to lock your computer near Start. The idea is
that when stolen, decrypting your laptop would present a real problem
to thieves attempting to steal information. For more about BitLocker:
[url]http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf311033.mspx?mfr=true[/url]

"Jeff Daly" <jeff_daly (@) hotmail (dot) com> wrote in message news:A83CFFBA-1489-4C60-B654-1B4E4D3D56E7@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I got an email today about the next shipment for the Microsoft Partners
> Action Pack Subscription. It seems like we will not be getting the
> Ultimate, but rather Vista Business. With Business it looks like we'll be
> missing out on the following new features:
>
> 1. BitLocker Drive Encryption - I don't really know how this works and I
> won't really be able to communicate this feature to my clients b/c I won't
> be using it myself.
>
> 2. Windows Media Center - not a big deal, but in my home-office I would
> have liked to try to make all this work since it might help me move into the
> residential market. I'd also LOVE to have this on my laptop to take
> recorded shows with me. :-) Maybe they'll play in Windows Media Player
> though...
>
> There may be more things that I missed, but I only looked at this page to
> see the differences in the various editions:
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx[/url]
>
> It's probably too late to lobby MS to include Ultimate, but I thought I'd
> put it out there.
>
> Jeff
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