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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."
Of course I have to question this release when on the same day I read about hotmail and msn whitelists.
Perhaps there will be a "whitelist" for longhorn? "Pay up and we'll give you a list of users and a bonus clue to a security hole!".
~~Guildencrantz
Penguin Trivia #46: Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were. -- Chicago Reader 10/15/82
Didn't you know that:
WinFS was "cancelled?"
The iPod Mini is a complete and utter failure?
Microsoft violates human rights in China?
Longhorn apparently already has hardware requirements, even though they were merely predictions by watchdogs who attended the WinHEC?
Nobody likes Windows XP, and everybody is hearing about Linux, even though Google Zeitgeist shows Linux at 1% usage?
The Lone Gunmen die? Oh, wait...
Yes, kids, you need to try getting your news outside of Slashdot once in a while--you'll see that the computing world is sometimes a completely different place than what you see reported here...
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Fuck you guys, man. Just for that, I'm posting this one *WITH* my karma bonus. Wasting your mod points if you like, but remember: if it's offtopic, people just won't read it.
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OSS products fucking suck too. Everything sucks. But a lot of people think Mac and Windows products suck less.