Microsoft Drops Next-Generation Security Project [updated]

grooveFX points to this CRN article which starts "After a year of tackling the Windows security nightmare, Microsoft has killed its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) project and later this year plans to detail a revised security plan for Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, company executives said..." grooveFX writes "Glad to see they actually listen to the gripes from the media and users." Update: 05/05 19:13 GMT by T : phil reed writes "Oops. According to this article on Microsoft Watch, Microsoft really isn't giving up on NGSCB (aka 'Palladium') after all. Microsoft spent much of Day 2 of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here refuting a published report claiming the company has axed its Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security technology."

Comments

What project?

[superpulpsicle]

I thought that's what patches and hotfixes are for in M$ land.

Re:Next goal for Microsoft

[hiekka]

>> If this goes well, they plan to cancel all security projects.

>How would anyone notice?

There would be lots of vulnerabilities in Windows.

Re:NGSCB NOT a security project.

[kabocox]

Microsoft dropping this is good in every way, except that it's ghost will return in other forms for sure...

Yes, like in the lastest MS Windows or IE Security Patch.

anyone can cut and paste, troll!

[Dave_bsr]

Hey look, its just a cut and paste of the latest trolls...rather than mod you down, i'll poke a few holes.

On my several-year-old system running linux 2.4, I can play fill my desktop with hi-res movies using mplayer. I'm talking upwards of 15 mpeg-2 and divx movies...on what? oh yeah, an athlon 1200. I wonder what your hot stuff Longhorn was running on - dual/quad processor xeons? Heh. Oh yeah, and I can play quake 3 in the background too - probably not at your framerate, but hey...

...mostly it's a function of the video card (and drivers) to do the scaling and the game rendering, while the CPU only does decoding (which can be in hardware too). Finally, you need ballsy disk bandwidth to get those bits off the disk. A new shiny OS won't do you squat.

Look, the point is that you cut and paste some crap about linux, and are really just trolling. Every point you make is pretty much lame and it's all pre-concocted, I've seen the same crap from other trolls. Seriously...why? If you want to question the groupthink, at least write your own opinions!