Microsoft Scales Down Palladium 475
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."
And to think I used to worry about this... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Not about the GUI (Score:3, Funny)
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.
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In Other News (Score:5, Funny)
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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.
Re:In Other News (Score:2, Funny)
"Longhorn" will be renamed to "LongHaul" to reflect the wait users are in for. Another suggestion which was rejected by MS marketing was "ShortFeatures", said to be accurate but unwieldy in the marketplace.
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Re:TP-M my ass. (Score:5, Funny)
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Suck. It will truly suck. Literally it will suck your system resources dry without mercy.
Secure Startup (Score:2, Funny)
The features I want in Longhorn (Score:3, Funny)
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
Cripes, what's left to strip out of Longhorn? (Score:1, Funny)
10 print "Welcome to Windows Longhorn!"
20 goto 10
Here's my suggestion... (Score:1, Funny)
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ba dum dum
Re:Truth in Advertising? (Score:3, Funny)
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 [www.ekta.ee], 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.)