The Minority Report

Secrets…and gold dubloons…arrrrgh. I bet what’s inside Windows 7 Vault is dirt and some empty bottles…(The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault^W)

Windows experts Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera have been peeling back the covers on Windows 7. Underneath the surface, they’ve discovered a few features that Microsoft hasn’t detailed and disclosed, including something called the Windows Vault.What’s inside Windows 7’s Vault? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

With Windows 7 just half-a-dozen weeks away from being in release candidacy stages, you would think people would have a good idea of what the operating system does and doesn’t do. Yeah right. While digging through the operating system, I stumbled across a handful of features that I, and others, haven’t a frickin’ clue about. It’s mega frustrating.

I will be covering three of these features separately this week.

Number 1: Windows VaultWithin Windows

At first glance, the Windows Vault appears to be a snazzy new feature to allow users to store a bunch of passwords to commonly used websites and doodads and have them Just Work(tm) when using those various services.

Within Windows

In discussion with Paul Thurrott, we came to the conclusion this fancy new Windows Vault stuff was merely the never-used Stored Names and Passwords feature from Windows Vista, painted over with some heavy lipstick and given a weird brand name.Within Windows

Not only are there features in there that were never tested publicly, there are features that are just hidden in there, undocumented and unknown to most.Three Windows 7 features I haven’t a clue about; One: Windows Vault – SuperSite Blog