By Julio Franco, TechSpot.com
Published: September 28,
Office Home And Student 2010 Key, 2009, ten:fifteen AM ESTBuilding the 'unhackable' netbook network
The NSW Division of Education (Australia) is inside the method of rolling out a plan to present some 240,000 Lenovo netbooks to large university students above another four a long time. Called "the most hostile environment you can roll computers into",
Windows 7 Home Basic, the netbooks will use a mixture of hardware and software program monitoring engineering to maintain the network of pcs underneath handle.
The Windows seven Enterprise driven devices may have 2GB of RAM and a six-hour battery, along with productivity software program like Microsoft Workplace,
Microsoft Office 2010 Serial, the Adobe CS4 suite (great luck managing that smoothly to the Atom platform),
Office Ultimate, Apple iTunes as well as other content geared to pupils. It really is talked about that Windows seven plays an extremely significant position because of to its safety and built-in features much like the AppLocker as well as the System Center Configuration Supervisor, utilised to restrain what software is put in on the devices and also to distribute updates wirelessly for the devices. Additionally the netbooks will carry passive RFID tags as well as other safety implemented on the BIOS stage. This just in case the netbook is misplaced or stolen,
Windows 7 Home Premium, it may be remotely disabled.
All in all, appears like a promising scheme even with the enforced restrictions. One term of guidance: Touting something as unhackable isn't a fantastic area to begin (even though in all fairness there is no direct quote calling the strategy as these kinds of, aside from the report title).