So the old is new again! For whatever reason it sounds like MS is going to start marketing Trustworthy/Trusted Computing more aggressively. NGSCB/Palladium will no doubt be a central feature in Windows 7 due out in another two years, after having been essentially a no-show in Vista. This time around the hardware infrastructure, in the form of Intel's Safer Computing Initiative, will be in place to allow this thrust to succeed. Perhaps Redhat/Linux will get there ahead of them, but in any event Wave's vision for the 'Trusted PC' and hardware based 'Trust at the edge' of the network is being worked on and implemented by the major industry powers right now.
In spite of all of the trashing of Wave by purported 'longs' in this forum, there isn't a single fact that refutes the obvious mainstreaming of TPM's in the future of PC computing. Carping about the past trickle of revenues is intended to distract investors here from the gushing of revenues that are coming as the value of Wave's software and IP become apparent. To this end I applaud Microsoft's effort to ramp up the dialogue and focus the industry's attention on this space.
As for the criticisms of Wave's sales efforts, it's all nonsense as far as I am concerned. You can't sell much grease before the machinery is put in place and that is how I look at Wave's software; as the grease that is going to allow other companies to profit from the use of the soon to be ubiquitous TPM and the "trusted stack" that Charney refers to, and of which the TPM is the cornerstone.
As an aside: I put in order for 5000 shares yesterday, with a limit of $1.01, and with 6 seconds left in the trading day according to Time.gov. The order filled entirely at $1.00 and yet the final tick showed as down. I hope that this helps investors understand that the stock price is being manipulated, no doubt by somebody(s) intent to profit from it; IMO most likely by buying cheap shares but given the future opportunity perhaps the goal is to buy the entire company on the cheap. Only the manipulators know the actual strategic goals, but I think we can all see their tactics.
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"Microsoft's latest strategy calls for continued development of a "trusted stack" of IT products and online services, throughout which individual elements will authenticate with one another more comprehensively, reaching from the operating system all the way to end-user devices and applications."
------------- "Microsoft will build hooks for more native systems of security and privacy into everything from its Windows OS and Office products to its own online properties and mobile device technologies..."
Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)-another way Microsoft is building a trustworthy computing environment to help customers realize their full potential.
Since the beginning of this initiative, Microsoft's vision has been to create new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform that uses a unique hardware and software design to give people new kinds of security and privacy protections in an interconnected world. The vision has not changed.
Our original approach was to create a new secure computing base that would run parallel to the regular Windows environment. This environment would provide features such as strong process isolation, sealed storage, secure path to and from the user, and attestation. This architectural approach would have required that applications be rewritten to take advantage of the new secure computing base.
While our customers said they liked the enhanced level of security offered in the original NGSCB architecture, they needed higher availability, better performance, and compatibility with existing applications. We heard strong feedback requesting that we meet these critical new requirements, as customers were concerned that having to rewrite all of their applications would hinder adoption of NGSCB.
Our first delivery on the vision is a hardware based security feature in Longhorn called Secure Startup. Secure Startup utilizes a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) to improve PC security and it meets some of the most critical requirements we heard from our customers-specifically, the capability to ensure that the PC running Longhorn starts in a known-good state, as well as protection of data from unauthorized access through full volume encryption.
Subsequent to Secure Startup, Microsoft will be focused on continuing to build other aspects of the NGSCB vision. These will complement Secure Startup to enable a broad range of new secure computing solutions. The technical specifications, timing and delivery vehicles are TBD.
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