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Cringely on Palladium

June 28, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Cringely on Palladium

, Microsoft’s newly announced “secure” OS. He pretty much nails it in my opinion. Most disturbing is the unspoken question: has Microsoft purposely kept thier current offerings vulnerable to drive demand for such a system? If you’re not up to date on Palladium, here’s a quote from the article: “…the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology owned by Redmond. That’s taking the Internet and turning it into MSN.”

Tags: Internet, Microsoft, Technology

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