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Major PC Makers Adopt Trusted Computing Schema
An anonymous reader wrote to let us known about a News.com story regarding so-called trusted computing, and its adoption by the major PC manufacturers. From the article: "The three largest computer makers--Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM--have started selling desktops and notebooks with so-called trusted computing hardware, which allows security-sensitive applications to lock down data to a specific PC." Interestingly, while Microsoft is said to be behind the idea support won't be forthcoming for trusted computing until they release Longhorn next year, making this a hardware-vendor lead initiative.
So far I never regretted my choice to switch to Apple / OS X. I havn't had any security-related trouble at all and very few problems whatsoever.
Now, three major PC-vendors make the Apple even more appealing. If you don't like the idea that those who sell content to you trust your spyware anf trojan-ridden hardware more than you, this might be the time to by a Mac.
If on the other hand Apple joins the tree mentioned in the Article, they might lose a very satisfied customer who converted a number of Windows-drones to OS X during the last year alone.
this is just another phase of microsoft's assault against linux.
first was sco and all this fud about intellectual property and now this try to get all those vendors that we forced to sell our os with their pc's to really force our os on the pc and not be able to install anything else.
who knows what else they have planned but when it all fails - and as a last resort - they will launch a patent assualt and put the industry at a standstill.
Lead? I thought they were trying to take the dangerous metals out of electronics? I think the word you want is "led".
Open suggestion to slashdot editors: stop referring to yourselves as editors which you do in fact not edit.
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