MS Palladium Patent

Concerned Citizen writes "cryptome has Microsoft's patent for Palladium. Including such gems as: 2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein protecting the rights-managed data comprises: refusing to load the untrusted program into memory. 14. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising: restricting a user to a subset of available functions for manipulating the rights-managed data. And I'm sure we'll all be coerced to agree to Palliadium during a future security patch agreement."

Comments

Re:how 'bout apple

[chris_martin]

But wait: doesn't M$ 0wn apple? (25% stock?) Does anyone know about DRM plans on mac?
You've got to be kidding me... MS sold their stock forever ago, plus it was NON-VOTING stock! MS never had anything to say with apple, except what the normal largest apple ISV would have to say. Plus, the Mac Biz Unit is run as a seperate company for all intents and purposes. Apple has no stated direction on DRM, except perhaps putting the DRM on the user with stickers like "Don't steal music" on the iPod. The Mac is a digital media creation system (Look at Final Cut and the recent film/video and music/sound software company purchases) and it would be sad for Apple to hobble it with DRM.

Re:Trust

[Malcontent]

Some spectacular failures from MS.

MS Bob.
MS at work (you remember this one it was supposed to be in copiers and faxes and stuff).
Windows ME
Hailstorm.
Windows CE.
Xbox.
Ultimate TV.
WEBTV (or whatever it was called)
Even to some extent SQL server and IIS each of which controls only about 30% of their markets.

In any other company even one failure of this magnitude would have killed it. Imagine the amount of R&D, programming, marketing etc that went into creating webTV. It was probably in the billions. The only company that can absorb that kind of a hit is MS thanks to their dual monopolies in Office and Windows.

This is where capitalism fell apart. MS can continue to develop products that fail in the market without damaging themselves. Other companies are not so lucky and one large failure will mean a collapse.

" If nobody trusts this system, it will not get into widespread use. Amazingly, Micro$oft does not succeed at everything."

I am trying to rack my brain and I can't think of one spectacular success they have had in the last five years. Can you help me out here? What product developed by MS in the last five years is dominating it's market? Of course I am not counting office and windows which are ongoing monopolies.