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Microsoft Scales Down Palladium
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."
Heck, Microsoft cannot even secure its own "proprietary" gaming console, why did we ever fear that they'd lock down all of our computers?!
Perhaps Microsorft have finally realised that such an invasive DRM system will cause a mass exodus of people from windows to Lenix. Microsoft seems determined to play into Lonis Torvaldez's hands with issues like these and I can't say that I'm ungrateful. Now if only WINE could play more games I'd switch straight away as the rest of my pirated material already works perfectly under linix.
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
Good to see that Microsoft have not been concentrating on the frivolous activity of making the GUI sexy (obviously) and have been concentrating instead on the more serious improvements "under the hood".
You know, super secret stuff that they don't want to talk about in case Apple steal for the "Future Cat" operating system in 2020.
When it's ready to go public, they're going to drop the cryptic development name of "Longhorn" and go with "XP Service Pack 3" instead.
Microsft reports today that Longhorn will not be shipped at all. Instead, it would be shipping a stripped down version of Windows XP with an all new startup screen and bundled with features from late Windows 3.11
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No no no. Usually you don't have to reinstall the OS to install a service pack, even if it does replace half the OS. ..this is clearly XP SE.
Well, I have to tell you I really can not wait for longhorn but, (as almost all my friends) I am sure I will not be queueing outside the shop, instead I will let my Mule do the queue ;o).
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IIRC Paladium can't be "fully operational" without the hardware system behind (the keys in the motherboard...) Maybe they realized it couldn't work without the whole system.
The other possibility is that they realized too many programs and computers would stop working at once and at the same time which would "kill" (or at least stop) all the Windows machines connected to the internet.
I wonder if Secure Startup will be able to distiguish a linux installation from a hard drive "compromise". I would be sad if there was such a bug. Imagine how enthusiastically MS would leap into action to get it fixed.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
What, exactly, is Longhorn going to do?
Suck. It will truly suck. Literally it will suck your system resources dry without mercy.
The MS guarantee: Your Machine will be safe for the first 35 nanoseconds.
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1. Regular crashes (couple of times every hour would do) accompanied by "You want to submit a bloody report?" messages. :-)
2. No support for *any* multimedia format except for WMA, WMV and ASF. Who cares for MP3 anyway.
3. It would be really nice to get a "Keyboard not detected - press enter ton continue" message for real in Longhorn
If they keep yanking features, they're going to be left with
10 print "Welcome to Windows Longhorn!"
20 goto 10
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XP Millenium Edition? So ... Longhorn will be Windows 3000.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
if any more features get cut, they're gonna have to change the name from Longhorn to VaPooRize
ba dum dum
What I did in humour, you were an asshole about, so wrap your drug-addled, pea-brained, useless as goatse mind around this:
.pdf file, scum-sucker):: www.amd.com/epd/desiging/evalboards/14.elansc400/b ios/phoenix/manual/picobios.pdf+%22windows+nt+3.01 %22&hl=en&client=firefox-a
I've seen a retail box copy of Windows NT 3.01, you dumb shit.
If you're coherent enough to comprehend it, look at http://www.ekta.ee/html/e741.htm, which was the third result in my supposed "garbage" Google search. Under the System Software section, it references....how about that? Windows NT 3.01.
Next, check this tech reference from AMD (Google PDF-to-HTML version, since you're probably too useless to even know what to do with a
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mJgOcysWfHYJ
Read page 117. The function it's describing supports Big Memory under Windows NT 3.01.
Just because you've never heard of it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Some of us have been around a little longer than you stupid fuck script kiddie assholes, and before you go spewing shit out your mouth as well as your ass, you might want to stop and consider that we know what we're talking about.
Go back to your porn collection, AC. (Yeah, I noticed you didn't even let anybody know who your stupid ass was.)
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