Microsoft still tinkering with secure-computing design

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Always good to be on the bleeding edge.

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"I can't speak to what (the features in) Longhorn will be," Mario Juarez, a product manager for Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit, told CNET News.com via phone on Wednesday."

"the company's software architects still haven't decided on the way in which Microsoft will patch the core of the secure OS or allow for restoring backups to a computer. Both activities change protected data and will run afoul of the protections erected by NG-SCB.

"It is still up in the air, along with the rest of the stuff," Juarez said.

What's not up in the air, he said, is Microsoft's commitment to producing software that, when paired with new computing hardware, can better secure data."

"What our customers told us is that these features are valuable, but they...(want us) to find a way to offer some of the secure computing experience out of the box," he said."


Reading between the lines. "We don't know what it is. We don't know how it will work. If it doesn't work we will blame it on our customers desires."

Bill Gates also says it's gonna be a 64-bit OS so you get to buy new hardware/software and those hardware vendors better get busy writing drivers for the OS that they haven't released yet.

2006? It'll be tight.

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