The Ultimate Operating System
If you use the same computer at home and for your daily work, Windows Vista Ultimate is an excellent choice. You can smoothly shift between the things you want to do and the things you need to do. For fun, you'll love the extensive options you get for music, images, live and recorded TV, and online entertainment. For work, you'll find improved document sharing and networking support. If your PC is a laptop, you'll appreciate how easily you can manage and extend your battery life. And you'll get the most advanced, layered security protection of any Windows release yet.
Product Information
- Includes Service Pack 1
- Get exclusive tips, services & software
- Use your PC in multiple languages
- Get a better Tablet PC experience
- Enjoy photos & entertainment
- Quickly tag photos & video with keywords
- Optimise PC performance & block pop-ups
- Control all mobility settings on your PC
- Latest Media Center with Vista upgrade
- Protect data on your hard drive with BitLocker Drive Encryption
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature available in Windows Vista Ultimate for client computers and in Windows Server 2008. BitLocker is Microsoft's response to a frequent customer request: address these very real threats of data theft or disclosure from lost, stolen or inappropriately decommissioned PC hardware with a tightly integrated solution in the Windows Operating System.
BitLocker prevents a thief who boots another operating system or runs a software hacking tool from breaking Windows Vista file and system protections or performing offline viewing of the files stored on the protected drive.
The feature ideally uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) to protect user data and to ensure that a PC running Windows Vista has not been tampered with while the system was offline. BitLocker provides both mobile and office enterprise information workers with enhanced data protection should their systems be lost or stolen and secure data deletion when it comes time to decommission those assets.