Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise - Windows to Go

Taken from:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226399/Microsoft_touts_corporate_tools_in_Windows_8_Enterprise?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-04-20

One of the new features is "Windows to Go"

In a Wednesday blog post, Erwin Visser, a senior director for Windows, outlined the features that will be limited to Windows 8 Enterprise, including the new "Windows to Go," which lets IT administrators burn an image of an in-house PC to a USB thumb drive.

Microsoft again touted the feature as a secure way for out-of-office workers to access corporate resources from personal or shared devices, and as a solution to the "bring your own PC" problem of people using their own machines, which may be less secure and more likely to be malware infected, to connect with the company's network. 

The idea is to allow more of the BYOD (bring your own device) into a corporate - and even with mobile devices and more.  This could be a way to let users on the go to still access the corporate data and resources.

With an every increasing mobile / tablet environment, users want and need the flexibility to get to resources on their phones and other devices - but that can lead to fraud and security issues.  Whether "Windows to Go" can stop that is a guess at this point, but it does illustrate that Microsoft is headed in that direction.