Photos: Inside Windows Vista beta 2

BitLocker
One feature that's had a fair amount of press but will be available only in the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Vista is BitLocker, a way to encrypt your entire hard drive. By encrypting the contents of your hard drive, hackers will have a harder time benefiting from the theft of a laptop. Unlike third-party drive encryption, which requires you to log in, then boot into Windows, Microsoft has combined these steps for faster access to Windows Vista.

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