From the "Always Check Your History" file

I attended a demo today on the new OS from Microsoft, Windows 7. It was geared towards the IT professional, so a lot of talk about security, profile, management and the like. One of the features that was being demoed was Windows new Search function, which essentially combines the old Run menu command line and the Search feature in the explorer window. Very nice, pretty neat. The presenter showed us how you just type a partial description of the application or file you are looking for, and the popup that overlays the start-menu shows up with a classified list of the results.

Cool.

From there he went back to the Start menu, and hovered the mouse over various items and showed us the new Aero features that make the menu look all nice and pretty. He passed his mouse over Applications, the list of applications pooped up, passed over My Documents, his list of documents popped-up, he browsed over his Browsing history and the browser history popped up. At this point he stepped away from his computer and turned back towards the big giant screen which had a nice digital projector projecting his windows session for all of us to see. Was waving his hand in front explaining the different sections, and did a slight pause.

Now at this point, I should mention another feature that is now available with Internet Explorer 8. It is call the "In Private" browser. What this does, is stop IE from logging anything in the history or the cache for your current session. something that he should have done. Because the very first link, at the top of his browser history was:

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