No Windows 7 SteadyState (yet?)
Posted
Friday, November 13, 2009 5:02 PM
by
sdeming
Q: (from Sid)
We bought 4 HP Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit towers for our Computer Club Computer Room and now have been told that SteadyState does not exist for Window 7 64 bit systems. Is that correct? If it is, Microsoft has once again figured how to shoot itself in the foot....public use machines (libraries, schools, computer rooms, kiosks, etc.) need SteadyState to protect against users who visit malicious Web sites.
A:
Still no word on the updated version of SteadyState. During the Windows 7 beta, it looked like SteadyState functionality was going to be embedded in the OS (under the beta names of PC Safeguard or Guest Mode), but it was pulled before the RC. I’m guessing that has delayed the delivery of a Windows 7 SteadyState because it was potentially going to be embedded in the product. BTW, it didn’t launch with Windows XP or Windows Vista either, so we will have to wait and keep watching the SteadyState website.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx