[Gllug] OT: Microsoft sandbox?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Friday 29 Aug 2003 7:40 pm, Paul Lee wrote:
> Huw Lynes wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:55:31 +0100
> >
> > Doug Winter <doug at pigeonhold.com> wrote:
> >>Anyone got any idea what the technology being referred to here is?
> >>
> >>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-5-794887,00.html
> >
> > sounds like a windows version of User Mode Linux. Or possibly a windows
> > implementation of chroot?
>
> Umm no. Its looks like trusted computing platform. ie: trusted to only
> run MS Windows ;o)
>
> Of course the press give MS an easy ride again, by basically reprinting
> a Microsoft press release
> and not enquiring why OSX and Linux are less prone to virii now without
> requiring a
> complete redesign of the PC.

This is the start of the M$ campaign to promote "Palladium" - a version of 
Windoze that will demand the installation of a M$-specific BIOS.  The 
traditional "IBM PC clone" that we're all using now will be effectively 
redundant in the brave new M$ world.  The hardware manufacturers were rubbing 
their hands with glee at the thought of all the new kit that they could sell 
until they realised all the implications of the dreaded M$ BIOS.....

Chris 


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