Re: EFS not available on XP Home

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:44:35 -0600

NTFS permissions are more than adequate for most home users.
If features available in Pro are desired then the increased investment
is necessary.

EFS is a feature more likely to be needed in a business environment
thus it is included in the Pro version.

Some of your other comments come off more an insult to home users.

You should not expect Professional features at Home prices. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Walden Yapp" <Reply@NG.pls> wrote in message
news:%23q8vPVpaEHA.3764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I am really starting to dispair of Microsoft's grasp on security
issues. Why
> is the Encrypting File System not available on XP Home systems. Is
the logic
> that no home computer would ever need to store sensitive information
or is
> it the case that if you have sensitive information you should buy
> professional even though you use it at home. Surely the Pro and Home
> suffixes are misleading in the case. I would suggest Grown User and
Child
> User or Human and Micky Mouse, or perhaps Not Very Secure and
Unsecure.
>
> -- 
> But Yapp had refused to take his shirt off.

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