Vista to block other OSs


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I love clearing up misinformation :rolleyes:

TPM boards will require an operating system (yes, linux too will support TPM chips) in order to use the enhanced security. You will be able to install XP (and probably 2000) on these boards, but the enhanced security won't be available. The system will continue to operate as normal, even without a TPM-supported OS.

Now, if you choose to enable the chip and the features in your OS, the chip will ensure that the boot sequence isn't hijacked, and execution is handed over securely to the operating system. The OS will use the TPM chip to ensure the kernel is completely protected, virtually eliminating kernel-mode security threats.

All the stories of TPM taking over your computer and deciding what you can and cannot do are simply bull****. You can still download your illegal movies and music. Software is another story though... Certain software (or features) will require TPM to be enabled so as to ensure you're running a legal copy.

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Leave it to a mod to come in and be all logical about a subject that has gone completely off the deep end. :p

Seriously though, I just wanted to add to your comments a little bit TPM isn't going to be a requirement for the OS to run just another feature it supports. By enabling TPM on the OS level this could concievably enable full volume encryption, which many companies with highly secure environments (i.e. the Government, Security Firms and so on) can choose to enable this to further enhance their already implemented security features. I know a major thing my company has had to deal with is data being taken off the local machines and put onto USB devices. The TPM technology would almost certain cut that off.

It seems like most people in here are very short sighted when it comes to what Vista is really all about, a stable platform to carry Microsoft into the future. Its not all about visual styles people!

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so, the future looks black, Microsoft want to own our entire computer?:angry:: they will decide what to install or not install?:crazy:y:? WTF...

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Yes, because that'exactly/b> what the article said.

Or at least is a reasonable interpretation of it.

Or at least a prediction of a possible outcome based on the information provided.

Or at least a sensationalist response that you pulled out of your ***.

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next time, just copy the short paragrah to your post.. its kinda stupid to click on a link then open a windows to read something lame

Yeah wouldn't want you to break your finger clicking a mouse button or strain your eyes from reading.

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I seriously hate the Inquirer. Why ? Because they keep on bashing Neowin on bad or false articles. I find Neowin to be much more reliable than that bunch of idiots who posted very extravagant rumours about Longhorn during the last 2 years.

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Some people in this thread have described TPM, but the main feature of TPM that I think the inq is talking about is that it is rumored Vista may encrypt the drive it is installed on so that other OSes can't access say your data on a Vista partition if you boot in a non-Vista (like say linux) environment and also keeps people from hacking the OS without proper authority. Last I heard from Microsoft this was optional so that if you have TPM and want encrypted drives to keep out thieves and hackers, this would be an option. So what's the stink about? Well seems someone told the inq that this will not be an option and will be enabled at all times. I find it highly unlikely MS would encrypt user data without asking, those who know MS know they wouldn't do something like that because of bad publicity for one, in addition to just being a bad idea for users, because some will want to legitimately access data on a vista partition from another OS. Keep in mind, this "news" site publishes every bad rumor it hears about MS and intel but not for anyone else, so consider yourself advised to take their article with salt.

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Okay, people like to go crazy over things they don't fully understand.

Little do you guys know, that Apple will be including TPM modules in all of their Intel based macs, to ensure that OS X does not run on non-Apple hardware.

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HA.

I find this hard to believe anyways. Since Microsoft doesn't manufacture the hardware that their OS would run on, how the #!$% would they regulate all them TPM chips?

:ninja: And look at how fast the TPM was broken on the Mac OSX x86 builds....wouldn't last an hour if Microsoft started doing it....

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TPM has another meaning in Portuguese... Pre Menstrual Period... lol :p

Don't get a tpm board... simple!

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Hmm... no?! TPM is Pre Menstrual Tension :huh: Wanna see?

Back on topic:

Wasn't this the earlier Palladium that was planned for Longhorn?!

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