Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

["Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de>]

"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> Though I think that starting with NT4, Windows has given up the nice
> modularisation present in NT 3.51 among other things.

Not in the least. As I said, XP contains all of 2000 and all of NT.

Windows is still modular, it's just not as obvious because the system
has become much bigger.

> Let alone the much debated forcedness of "support" for no-copying 
> soft/hardware, saluting the DMCA and Palladium.
> Did someone say something like "we need more trust"?

This panicking in the face of TCPA efforts is not justified.

The Palladium platform will support "trusted" and "untrusted"
operation. It just mimicks things present in MULTICS, and OS/400,
for example, namely the possibility of providing a secure 
environment for running applications.

The user can decide whether they want to run trusted or other apps.

The trusted mode is mainly targeted at business that want to 
protect its business-critical data.

Other operating systems will also support TCPA, namely AIX, Solaris
and GNU/Linux. Whether the users will accept it, is another question,
but I figure that businesses will welcome it.