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  • MS Palladium: A must or a menace?

    Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.

  • How MS will turn your PC into a TV station

    Microsoft has a new technology that'd let you stream TV from your Media Center PC to TV sets and other computers. Too bad that technology raises more questions than it answers.

  • Microsoft talks the talk on security

    Microsoft is making a bid to change from the company the rest of us blame for security issues - and it is not at all abashed about it.

  • Antivirus 'drivers' secure MS Exchange

    Microsoft is set to detail a future version of Windows that will make it easier to detect and isolate viruses.

  • Gates: Slow going for .Net

    Kicking off a conference on the .Net architecture, Bill Gates acknowledges that its software plan has been slow to catch on and lays out an agenda to move it ahead.

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  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • Gates: Slow going for .Net

    Kicking off a conference on the .Net architecture, Bill Gates acknowledges that its software plan has been slow to catch on and lays out an agenda to move it ahead.

Reviews (2)

  • MS Palladium: A must or a menace?

    Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.

  • MS: Secure computing is still a decade away

    COMMENTARY--One year ago, Bill Gates challenged his Microsoft troops to make the company's products more trustworthy. What's been accomplished? A bit. What still needs to be done? A lot.

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