{"id":807,"date":"2006-07-16T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/16\/microsoft-withdraws-windows-private-folders\/"},"modified":"2006-07-16T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T16:42:04","slug":"microsoft-withdraws-windows-private-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/16\/microsoft-withdraws-windows-private-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft withdraws Windows Private Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was introduced as a free download last week. Almost immediately, people raised questions over how businesses would grapple with the ability of individual workers to encrypt their data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for customers running genuine Windows,&#8221; Microsoft said in a statement to CNET News.com on Friday. &#8220;However, we received feedback about concerns around manageability, data recovery and encryption, and based on that feedback, we are removing the application today. This change will take effect shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However in this point in time you can currently still download Private Folder 1.0 from Microsoft&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/genuine\/offers\/Details.aspx?displaylang=en&#038;countrycode=USA&#038;offerid=441c2998-248b-49cf-b084-f3a237b58f71\" rel=\"external\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Microsoft+shutters+Windows+private+folders\/2100-1012_3-6094481.html?tag=nefd.top\">Cnet news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders. The feature was introduced as a free download last week. Almost immediately, people raised questions over how businesses would grapple with the ability of individual workers to encrypt their data. &#8220;Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/16\/microsoft-withdraws-windows-private-folders\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft withdraws Windows Private Folders&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}