Nothing to get hysterical about.
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Microsoft said the next-generation BIOS would allow future versions of Windows to manage server blades when they are connected to a system, without needing to be turned on.
Can you say: "Security Hole"?
Sure, I knew you could.
They just
never learn. The A Number One problem with Winderz is all the crap that's "turned on" by default, leaving your system wide-open to all sorts of 'sploits. Just imagine how that will be multiplied when the script kiddies can gain access to the very hardware. It won't be just data that gets destroyed, but entire
systems :eek:
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Both Microsoft and Phoenix are currently arguing for closer integration of Windows with PC hardware, and DRM integrated throughout. Microsoft is planning to tie Windows DRM features to the hardware platform via its controversial Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) project, formerly known as Palladium. NGSCB is associated with the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is due in about two years' time.
Who gives a fuck? All the BIOS does is provide rudimentary communication between the processor and hard: the drives, and keyboard. Linux, already, does
nothing with the BIOS once it's booted (it's just half-fast Winderz that continues to rely on the BIOS). All that DRM shit won't do any good if you install Linux.
Even if these new M$/Phoenix BIOSs won't allow Linux,or any other nonM$ OS to boot (in which case, you're sure to see
shit-loads of law$uit$ being filed) the obvious answer is an Open Source BIOS. Hell, the Open Source community has already programmed an entire
OS, surely a BIOS is NBD to code? That, and an EPROM "burner", and you're good to go.
All-in-all, there's a very good chance that this is more M$ vapor-ware anyway. :rolleyes:
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