Small note to administrators in the Windows environment. As far as I know, it hasn't been officially announced yet, but Microsoft is working on renaming its Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). If not everything is wrong, the function will soon be called Application Control for Business. At least that's according to Group Policy designations distributed with Windows Insider Previews.
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I stumbled across the following tweet from Tero Alhonen about this. Tero Alhonen has installed there a Windows 11 Enterprise Insider Preview Build 25941, which was announced at the end of last week in the Windows Blog. There, the Group Policy no longer talks about Windows Defender Application Control, but the feature is now called Application Control for Business.
Xeno writes on Twitter that this was one of the renamings he first noticed in build 25938 with Local Experience Pack (LPX). There he writes that, for example, "Windows Defender Application Control policy" has become "Application Control for Business policy". Seems like Microsoft would have to change a lot of documentation again then.
Application Control for Windows restricts the applications that users are allowed to run and the code that runs in the system core.
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"Application Control for Business"
Microsoft is now all about business and corporate users. This philosophy is why home users are being compelled to replace their existing hardware and buy new hardware in order to be able to continue with a supported Windows which will be Windows 11. It wishes us to believe that this is out of concern for home user security but is it really promoting security to force the use of TPM and UEFI secuure boot or else force users to continue with unsupported Winndows 10?