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> So Microsoft is charging more to not keep the key, which means they view it as a benefit for them to keep the key. Or it means that Bitlocker has been a Pro

> So Microsoft is charging more to not keep the key, which means they view it as a benefit for them to keep the key. Or it means that Bitlocker has been a Pro or Ultimate feature in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, and PHBs decreed that Microsoft wasn't going to put the full-fledged feature in Home to continue to differentiate between Home and Pro and that the intended market of Home users did not need to be provided a way to lose their keys and brick their computers because nobody wants those support calls and the negative publicity about your data being inaccessible?

ikeboy 11y ago
Device encryption has been around since 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/using-device-encryption http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/using-device-en... >the intended market of Home users did not need to be provided a way to lose their keys and brick their computers because nobody wants those support calls and the negative publicity about your data being inaccessible So make the option a registry tweak, which is free, not an upgrade to Pro, which isn't. I don't think freedom from corporate decryption abilities should be something charged for.
- Amezarak 11y ago
  Device Encryption is just Bitlocker under the hood, which has been a Pro/Ultimate feature since Vista. A basic version of Bitlocker has been provided since Windows 8 in the Home edition, as you point out. There's nothing more I can write I didn't address in the above post. Device encryption and Bitlocker aren't separate entities. Device encryption is the consumer version of Bitlocker. Device encryption doesn't expose all the features of Bitlocker because then there's less that differentiates Home and Pro/Enterprise. I agree it would be nice to have in Home, but the average Home user doesn't know what this is, doesn't want it, and probably shouldn't have it. If you are the kind of knowledgeable user that does know it and should have it, Pro isn't hard to get. Hell, Home doesn't even have freakin' Remote Desktop. Microsoft has to have something to differentiate editions (if they're going to insist on doing so in the first place - life would be simpler if they didn't), this seems reasonable enough and a step in the right direction - more encrypted harddrives. There is no "corporate decryption ability" unless Microsoft is in actual physical possession of your TPM and harddrive.

ikeboy 11y ago

Device encryption has been around since 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/using-device-encryption http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/using-device-en... >the intended market of Home users did not need to be provided a way to lose their keys and brick their computers because nobody wants those support calls and the negative publicity about your data being inaccessible So make the option a registry tweak, which is free, not an upgrade to Pro, which isn't. I don't think freedom from corporate decryption abilities should be something charged for.

Amezarak 11y ago
Device Encryption is just Bitlocker under the hood, which has been a Pro/Ultimate feature since Vista. A basic version of Bitlocker has been provided since Windows 8 in the Home edition, as you point out. There's nothing more I can write I didn't address in the above post. Device encryption and Bitlocker aren't separate entities. Device encryption is the consumer version of Bitlocker. Device encryption doesn't expose all the features of Bitlocker because then there's less that differentiates Home and Pro/Enterprise. I agree it would be nice to have in Home, but the average Home user doesn't know what this is, doesn't want it, and probably shouldn't have it. If you are the kind of knowledgeable user that does know it and should have it, Pro isn't hard to get. Hell, Home doesn't even have freakin' Remote Desktop. Microsoft has to have something to differentiate editions (if they're going to insist on doing so in the first place - life would be simpler if they didn't), this seems reasonable enough and a step in the right direction - more encrypted harddrives. There is no "corporate decryption ability" unless Microsoft is in actual physical possession of your TPM and harddrive.