Microsoft have demonstrated applications running on Palladium, which is now known as Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base. The demo was on a prototype system, with applications running to show the new security features.
This is a milestone as it is the first public demo of the system, and Microsoft hopes NGSCB will eventually be the key to securing corporate customers. Sceptics are claiming the technology will result in users having less control of their systems and Microsoft tightening their grip on the market.
There are to be 16 hours at the conference dedicated to Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base. The technology will involve ‘process isolation’ (which protects applications), ‘sealed storage’ (data protection/security), ‘secure path’ (USB data/video encryption) and ‘attestation’ (which allows a snapshot to be taken of the ‘key characteristics that will define the integrity of the PC’).
One of the demos featured a program grabbing text from notepad, then failing to do so on a secure application. Another took a trusted file from one PC running a trusted application to another PC where they then altered it, they then showed that the file could not be opened on the trusted application on the first PC.
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This is a milestone as it is the first public demo of the system, and Microsoft hopes NGSCB will eventually be the key to securing corporate customers. Sceptics are claiming the technology will result in users having less control of their systems and Microsoft tightening their grip on the market.
There are to be 16 hours at the conference dedicated to Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base. The technology will involve ‘process isolation’ (which protects applications), ‘sealed storage’ (data protection/security), ‘secure path’ (USB data/video encryption) and ‘attestation’ (which allows a snapshot to be taken of the ‘key characteristics that will define the integrity of the PC’).
One of the demos featured a program grabbing text from notepad, then failing to do so on a secure application. Another took a trusted file from one PC running a trusted application to another PC where they then altered it, they then showed that the file could not be opened on the trusted application on the first PC.
View: Microsoft FAQ News source: ZDNetRIM SETS PARTNERSHIPS
The agreement marks the latest move by Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM to use licensing deals to try to expand its subscriber base while turning potential adversaries into partners. Terms were not disclosed, but a RIM spokesman said the company will earn subscriber revenues from use of its service though Palm-supported devices.
"For RIM, we can increase the number of subscribers, because these will work with either existing or new enterprise service deployments," the RIM spokesman said.
For PalmSource, which this year plans to split from Palm's hardware group, Palm Solutions, the deal potentially offers a key application that its licensees, who include Samsung Corp., Handspring Inc. and Sony Corp., may want to feature in their machines.
Wireless e-mail is particularly popular with business users, whom handheld makers hope will buy their devices in bulk once economic condition again support spending on technology. Gadgets that can quickly and securely transfer e-mail, such as the BlackBerry highly desired by corporations.
In March RIM announced a licensing deal to provide BlackBerry access to carriers and licensees of the Symbian operating system.
Closely held Symbian is owned by some of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers, who also use its operating system.
RIM signed a similar deal last year with Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker.
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