There’s a major corporate remodeling going on at Microsoft in which every developer, product manager, and executive assistant has been asked to rethink everything they do in the context of security.

Secretly, the company has been working on a plan to rearchitect the PC from the ground up to address security, privacy, and intellectual property theft issues.

“We’ve become very security concious here in Redmond, or at least that’s how we’re selling this new move to the public,” one spokesperson might have said. “The reality is that a steady 90+% control of the home and business computing market is no longer enough to appease the contracts we’ve had to make with our Dread Lords in order to enjoy this kind of prosperity for this long,” he didn’t add, glancing over his shoulder nervously and sketching an ancient Lemurian sigil of warding in the air. “The fact is, we have to switch to what amounts to an OS-leasing pay structure by 2006 and gain complete control of the hardware platform by the third lunar cycle of 2013 or our human sacrifice commitments will rise to the point where we’ll have to outsource just to break even. You should see the unholy prayer wheels we’ll have to build directly into the motherboard, even if we make quota.”

“It hell around here,” he finally screamed, “literally. Please, kill me.”

The only way Windows is going to become "secure" is to redesign the whole bloody thing from the ground up.

Since Win NT 3.5.1 - 4.0 - 2000 - XP are all from the same line, alot of the initial insecurites will always be there. It's like trying to build a roof with 3 big pieces of wood and alot of pieces of cardboard, and when the rain washes one piece of cardboard away, you patch it with newspaper.

A hardware based solution like MS has talked about will fail.

Microsoft needs to do what Apple did, they need a proven central core like BSD or IRIX or Solaris, and build a new OS around that.

For the more geeky amongst you (you know who you are) that want more information should read this TCPA/Palladium FAQ.

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Very disappointed.