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Microsoft Scales Down Palladium

Posted by samzenpus on from the secure-enough dept.

bonch writes "Formerly known as Palladium, Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) will not be fully available in Windows Longhorn after all. Instead, Longhorn will offer "the first part of NGSCB: Secure Startup," says Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president for platforms. However, most hardware will not support this technology on release."

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  1. What he's trying to say is... by SpikyTux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This will not work properly like other Microsoft "technology"

  2. Windows still better than Linux by OMGtehRed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You all my be using Linux, but Windows users are having fun with using many times more programs and using games which aren't cheap knockoffs of commercial titles.