Even though major hardware makers will support Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base from the start, the company says it expects users won't jump to embrace it at first. "A small, single-digit percentage of PCs shipped in the year after [NGSCB] becomes available will support it, ramping up to double digits the year after that," says Peter Biddle, product unit manager at Microsoft's security business unit. "I am not sure if it will ever be in 100 percent of the systems."
Microsoft detailed its strategy at its annual Windows Engineering Hardware Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans this week.
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