chsbiking and Nil Einne both let us know that Microsoft has dropped the name of their controversial security technology, Palladium.
According to Microsoft they already intended to change the name for a long time and besides that they were also facing a potential legal battle with a small firm over the Palladium name:
Microsoft unveiled Palladium last summer with the goal of allowing companies to wall off data, secure communications, and to identify their systems and those of business partners. Critics, however, argue that the technology can also be used to restrict access to data. For example, a text document could be restricted to being accessible by only the application that created it. |
The name change comes a day after Chairman Bill Gates sent a memo to Microsoft's customers outlining the company's progress towards securing its Windows products. The memo foreshadowed the name change by referring to Palladium as the initial name for the technology.
"Looking ahead, we are working on a new hardware/software architecture for the Windows PC platform (initially code-named 'Palladium'), which will significantly enhance the integrity, privacy and data security of computer systems by eliminating many 'weak links,'" Gates wrote in the memo.
Although there is a lot of controversy surrounding the Palladium technology, few technical details of the technology have been released. Read the complete article here.
Source: News.com
