barge: "reason [you're] excited about Lagrande without Longhorn, is that it offers the decent possibility of mass deployment of Trusted Computing THIS YEAR!" -- sorry chap, while there'll likely be "mass deployment of Trusted Computing THIS YEAR", which is apparently well on it's way, truly significant Trusted Computing-related revenues (of the Qualcomm magnitude a few years back) WILL NOT MATERIALIZE UNTIL SOFTIE'S FULLY ON BOARD WITH LONGHORN .... sure legrande ushers in infrastructure more quickly, BUT COLD HARD CASH PAID TO WAVE SYSTEMS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL SIGNED CONTRACTS ARE IN HAND .... AND WHO'S GOING TO PAY FOR A YET UNPROVEN FRAMEWORK PROVIDING FOR THE OMNIPRESENT WEB-SERVICES (A LA HP'S e-SPEAK), UNTIL IT'S TESTED, UP AND RUNNING, which, incidentally, will require Longhorn for full realization of robust and complex web-services?!!!
as usual, barge, you tout a "decent possibility" of a rosy picture that just ain't realistic in the timeframe you suggest.
