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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. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.