Palladium on display at WinHEC
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The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), better known by the code-name Palladium, will be a major feature of the next client version of Windows and is getting the spotlight here at Microsoft's conference for hardware partners.
NGSCB will combine work within Windows to hardware engineering changes by Microsoft partners to give users additional security and privacy protection. Current plans call for NGSCB to be integrated into the Windows "Longhorn" client operating system as a subset of Windows functionality.
While the idea that Palladium will be part of Longhorn has been the stuff of rumor, speculation and off-the-record interviews, the announcement Tuesday by Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference gives the idea some real substance.