Couple of MS questions...

[mendhak]

I've basically heard words being floated about, without being sure exactly what it was.

"Palladium"
"Longhorn"
"Whistler"

Someone please explain these, and feel free to throw in any other new developments coming out from MS...

[axion_sa]

Don't know what the other 2 are, but Palladium is a new joint effort from Intel & Microsoft. Basically, it's going to end up being a "on-board" encryption chip that Windows can plug into to ncrypt your files and all that goes along with it. I think it'll be somewhere around the 128 bit mark, along with the usual public/private keys, and heaven help you if the Palladium chip f***s up and you lose your keys. The saving grace is that you can switch it off at least.

Apparently, you'll be able to encrypt CD's with it, thus preventing illegal copying yada yada. I'm sure you can imaging what that means...

Oh, and this is all from memory read about 2 months ago, so I might be wrong in a couple of places

[mendhak]

I posted in the wrong place...
I'll leave this up here, but I'm posting in General PC as well...

:embarassed:

[Rick Bull]

Whilstler was the code name for XP. And Longhorn is the next Windows, I think.

[alex_read]

That's right, in beta testing, XP was called whistler & the new windows.net was codenamed Longhorn ...