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Rachelelise

Is this what you're talking about? Most people don't appreciate its significance! Well, if SKS is "perfectly fine" with it, so should we!

"So actually on Vista we will implement the CSP, or support for the old platform. Microsoft will implement support for the KSP and maybe it takes five or seven years to transition. We’re perfectly fine with that."


Perhaps we'll let SKS explain it!


"Microsoft has changed that architecture in Vista to support both CSPs and what’s called KSPs or also Kryptographic Service Providers but spelled with a “K.” There are no third party applications today that take advantage of the KSP architecture – it’s the way Microsoft wants to go in the future. So actually on Vista we will implement the CSP, or support for the old platform. Microsoft will implement support for the KSP and maybe it takes five or seven years to transition. We’re perfectly fine with that. If everybody has to buy our software to get the CSP for seven years on the client machine, we believe that there are lots of other values in remote management and cross platform interoperability, in the tools that we provide for example on the Seagate hard disk - there’s no support for Seagate hard disks in Microsoft’s software - that we have a substantial role today and for the foreseeable future. What Microsoft might do in four or five years, it’s too hard to predict."


From the Dutton Conference: (Thanks Unclevername)
http://www.unclever.com/wavx/

Soetebier: Steven while we’re waiting for questions, I get a lot of questions on the Microsoft Vista product and what it might offer relative to Trusted capabilities now that there are some beta sites out there. Could you address if there’s been any clarification on that?

SKS: Microsoft has built some basic trusted platform management into the Microsoft Vista operating system. It only works on Vista. It does not provide any capability to either Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The primary application that Microsoft is deploying is something called Bitlocker. And what Bitlocker does is it’s a software based Full Disk Encryption product. So, it provides a lot of very similar capabilities to what Seagate is doing in hardware in their drives. In general, if I were a customer wanting Full Disk Encryption, I’d probably prefer the Seagate solution in that it has no performance impact on my computer. Where the Microsoft solution uses the Pentium processor to do the Full Disk Encrypting, and results have varied, but let’s say it’s five to ten percent or as much as fifteen percent performance impact on my computer. But the capabilities are very similar for Full Disk Encryption.


We see the beginnings of Remote Management for the Vista platform, using Active Directory. We extend that capability to supply remote management not only to Vista but also to Windows XP and Windows 2000.

There are certainly components within our client software that will roll up into the Vista Operating System. We build a component called the CSP or Cryptographic Service Provider, which is how a lot of third party applications talk to the Trusted Platform Module chip and that’s a very industry standard component. Microsoft has changed that architecture in Vista to support both CSPs and what’s called KSPs or also Kryptographic Service Providers but spelled with a “K.” There are no third party applications today that take advantage of the KSP architecture – it’s the way Microsoft wants to go in the future. So actually on Vista we will implement the CSP, or support for the old platform. Microsoft will implement support for the KSP and maybe it takes five or seven years to transition. We’re perfectly fine with that. If everybody has to buy our software to get the CSP for seven years on the client machine, we believe that there are lots of other values in remote management and cross platform interoperability, in the tools that we provide for example on the Seagate hard disk - there’s no support for Seagate hard disks in Microsoft’s software - that we have a substantial role today and for the foreseeable future. What Microsoft might do in four or five years, it’s too hard to predict.

The tactic here is to engage on the client side. Build a strong presence on the client side today. And use that to build the server presence. And then frankly if in time the 50 cent business goes away because you’re supplying the enterprise management infrastructure for subscription to services, that’s perfectly fine. If that software got built into every copy of Windows, we’d be happy with that.