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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. And to think I used to worry about this... by King_of_Prussia · · Score: 4, Funny
    I used to be afraid of what Palladium could do for the computing industry. Many tried to convince me that there was nothing to fear because there was no way in heck Microsoft could ever get anything done right and on time. It appears they were correct. Now it's being partially dropped from Longhorn, which is itself being pushed back to oblivion. Now I'm left wondering why I used to be worried.

    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.

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  2. Not about the GUI by skingers6894 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:So... by golgotha007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. In Other News by p0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:So... by baadger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:TP-M my ass. by NickFortune · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, exactly, is Longhorn going to do?

    Suck. It will truly suck. Literally it will suck your system resources dry without mercy.