[PrivateButts]

Am I understanding the article correctly that it's for new installs only?

Also is "on by default" the right wording for something that needs a registry change to turn off? That just seems like it's forced with a workaround that they'll remove at some point.

Last point, does that mean that windows is going to take a massive speed penalty going forward since they also default to their slow software encryption over hardware encryption?

Man this kinda blows. I'm hoping that W12 will have all this Vista-esk transition crap sorted out by the time it launches.

[CatWChainsaw]

Fresh installs and resets according to the article. Although I had to help a family member set up a new computer in January. I set it up with a local account and device encryption was "on" but checking with command prompt revealed that with local account it wasn't actually encrypted since a Microsoft Account hadn't been submitted, and there was no Bitlocker key.

There are so many problems with this that are stupid but that's par for the course when it comes to tech corps these days, they have all the leverage, so their fuckup is your problem, and what is this customer support you speak of.

Don't hold your breath on Microsoft actually improving any of its offerings.