| CompTIA and Windows 7 |
Sometimes it's hard to know what CompTIA is thinking about what it wants to do regarding A+ ( or for that matter, any of its certifications ) when it seems like they aren't certain themselves.
It's not like Tcat Houser or GetCertify4Less.com can really blame CompTIA or the A+ certification. The world is in such a fast change of pace, it's difficult to get examination questions vetted before the 'real world'has changed.
In my decades of playing with computers I have not seen as dramatic a shift from Microsoft as the jump from Windows 3. x and Windows 95. Certainly, you will not find me defending Vista. Heck, I thought windows 2000 was rushed. And odds, are you're sticking with XP.
Even with all the glowing reports about Windows 7, it took a motherboard failure for me to get off my butt and give it a try. Yes I will admit, knowing it was built on Vista did slow me down a little bit. And I can safely say Microsoft is not blowing smoke when they say they have learned from their mistakes and are bound to correct them in Windows 7.
The ironic thing is that it was built on Vista actually turns out to be a good thing. This is because any drivers build that work on Vista will work with Windows 7.
There is a ton of new features in Windows 7. One of the new ones is BitLocker. The encrypting scheme can work with a smart card or a password. It can be used for encrypting data drives fixed in location, or removal devices such as a USB.
While Windows prefers NTFS, starting with a service pack in Vista (SP1), Redmond. gave us a proprietary file system known as exFAT. Since some versions of Windows support access control lists with exFAT, without the overhead of NTFS, you might think of it as an NTFS - Lite.
Other advantages include a maximum theoretical size of 16 Exabyte, while having significantly lower overhead in format space than NTFS. Additionally, it supports ReadyBoost (however, only in Windows 7). We will take on ReadyBoost in another article here at GetCertify4Less.com
Are you confused about CompTIA? Can you believe that Windows 7 looks as slick as Macintosh? Ask me more about it! E-mail me!
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