have you guys seen the new sh*t microsoft has come up with?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26504
thats gotta be illegal man i hate them

Not illegal but maybe anti-competitive if they require it for the only OS they sell. Since the Republicans dropped most of the anti-trust stuff against MS you'll have to rely on EU courts to do something about it if so.

If I read it correctly though it appears to only affect dual boot systems so it won't have much impact for business. We either have servers dedicated to Unix/Linux or Windows.

DAMN!!! BLAST THEM!!

-A

My understanding of trusted computing is that the encryption features in the CPU are only used if the operating system chooses to use them. So you should still be able to dual-boot, *I think*

However this would make accessing your windows documents via linux impossible as they would all be encrypted with 128-bit encryption

In any event hell will freeze over before I purchase a trusted computing platform for home use.

Hell will freeze over before I install that scum (IMO) on my PC again..

-A

I don't see any problems here. You can also encrypt your disk/partition under linux.

Just don't install vista.

They've come up with disk-encryption, and a FUD press-release, all in one neat package. Linux has had this for years, but never tried to turn it into "the end of the world as we know it."

Alas, there is a fundamental and inescapable problem with disk-encryption systems, and that is the fact that the plaintext encryption-key must be stored somewhere. Locate that key, and the encryption is nonexistent.

Furthermore, y'know, disk drives break. They're not supposed to, but they do. And sometimes you have to move them. Disk-encryption can make these things a royal pain in the ... on any system.

Moved: To General with the rest of these kind of posts.

Like I said many times before.

Lets all build a homemade PPC machine and install linux on top.

that in its self is enough to make me never support MS again once Vista is released in that modle.

*yaaawn*
Oh, sorry. did someone say something?
Oh, I see, Vista, never mind.

does it matter anymore? Microsoft has some serious serious competition ....Good Bye MS Hello Google OS

Hmmm - seems I once heard someone say "Bye, bye Windows - Hello OS/2".

I suspect Windows death is like that of Unix. Unix has been predicted to be going away any day now since 1970. There will always likely be a niche for Windows. Also remember Windows got where it is now not because of technical superiority but because of marketing superiority (even if you don't like their methods).

Also supportability is a big issue for commercial entities. I recall once having worked on A/UX which was Apple's Unix that allowed for seamless integration between their System 7 and Unix (maybe that was the basis for the current Mac OS?). However after evaluating it despite loving the way it worked (it truly was SEAMLESS) I recommended we not use it because at the time the System 7 side knew nothing about the Unix and vice-versa.

Oops - I forgot to bash it by calling it Windoze - where are my manners?

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