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Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

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Palladium is also Microsoft's codename for their new "trusted computing" architecture. Under Palladium, the Microsoft operating system, working with a secure cryptoprocessor embedded in the PC, will act as a gatekeeper controlling all functions of the PC, preventing the execution of unauthorised code. Palladium builds on Microsoft's patent on a "Digital Rights Management Operating System", effectively allowing it to control the development and use of software for any PC using Palladium hardware.

Opponents of Microsoft's Palladium initiative characterise it as an attempt by Microsoft to close the PC architecture, thus entrenching Microsoft's monopoly in PC operating systems into monopoly control of the entire PC industry, both hardware and software.

Microsoft has a poor record in software security. One of Palladium's developers, Paul England is quoted by MSNBC as saying "I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs".

It is uncertain whether Microsoft will succeed in forcing the PC industry to adopt the Palladium technology.

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