It's called windows embedded...
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Subject: [H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows Piracy?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:46:02 -0400
This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy
for their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft
than hackable Windows being sold pours in.
Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed
such as the BIOS on motherboards.
What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build
the authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to
start with a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been
hacked.
Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would
not be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades
would be impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only
one version, the best!
Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to
the CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be
carried forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that
require new computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an
industry that specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that
authorized that version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in
order to move up to a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new
computer with a new CPU.
Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my
ideas are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest
problem with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft
refuses to use a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever
heard of altering or flashing a CPU?
Chuck
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