Microsoft: 'Trusted Windows' still coming, trust us

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There's some good news here.

The new Microsoft strategy is to move forward one step at a time, checking with customers about whether they want or need the product.

I suspect they would have been glad to complete their original vision promptly, but not many sane people or organizations (leaves out the RIAA) want extreme restrictions on what a computer will do. They also don't want to rewrite everything for an ultimate protection scheme needed by very few.

So be glad.

From the article:

The change, Microsoft says, is the result of customers telling the software maker that they didn't want to have to rewrite their applications.

"We revisited our approach," said Selena Wilson, director of product marketing in Microsoft's security unit, adding that the company's decision was to "give customers something that is easy to implement now and upgrade over time."

Microsoft's plans for NGSCB have been shifting for some time. The company demonstrated a prototype of the technology two years ago, but by that point there were already concerns that it could harm consumers or that it would give Microsoft too much leverage over businesses.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 04/25/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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