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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."

4 of 475 comments (clear)

  1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A redundant first post. How the bloody hell does that work?

  2. Re:Soo..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is interesting, and the first post, which says exactly the same thing, is redundant?! I call mods on crack!

  3. Re: Microsoft and Security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol yeh i suggest 2 everyone as a 14 yr old computar speciulist that they switch to linurx. its clearly much bettar than window$ (lol i wrote a $ instead of an s which is called SATYRE) because its not made by biull gate$ (again, SATYRE - every post is a learning experence! XP! LEVEL UP! LOl).

  4. Hamburg pranksters have discovered Alka-Seltzer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Exploding toads baffle scientists