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From Server-Pipeline newsletter today. (I just got mine.)

http://www.serverpipeline.com/trends/162100668

Editor's Picks

Top Story: The Lowdown On Longhorn
In sessions at last week's WinHEC conference and in interviews with Microsoft officials, CMP Pipeline Editor Scot Finnie got some deep insight into the technical details of the upcoming Longhorn operating system -- including its basis on Windows Server code

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Secure Startup And TPM 1.2. One subsystem that is clearly different is NGSCB (Next Generation Secure Computing Base), a hardware-and-software-based security technology that was planned to be a part of Longhorn. Microsoft stopped using that terminology a while back. Instead of NGSCB, Microsoft is now talking about building in support for TPM (Trusted Platform Module). TPM 1.1 is the stuff of "embedded security chips" found in IBM and HP computers. According to partner sources, Microsoft will support TPM 1.2 in Longhorn. Also helping to replace NGSCB is a Longhorn functionality Microsoft calls Secure Startup, which is designed to protect PCs from unauthorized use. For more information about Secure Startup, see Microsoft's Secure Startup - Full Volume Encryption: Technical Overview.

-R