Gates quells fears over new PC security

So ole Bill thinks I'm stupid. I could very well be sitting here typeing this right now in a attempt to put my foot in my mouth. But as reading the article it makes me wonder who's got their head up their 4th point of contact more. Bill or me?

Lets see here, this new system AFAIK works only with Windows NeXGen products and specially made chipsets from Intel and AMD. Obviously they left Apple and Cyrix out of the group which serves to throw more fuel on the fire for Apple to switch to Intel made chips due to the fact that Motorola the current PowerPC chip fabricator cannot keep up with current clockspeeds. But if you think about it a little more you see that it also elbows out any other competition such as Linux PC's with the same amount of security. Of course this would be based on a standard but since MS created it I'm sure they have over a dozen patents that they'll happily charge a arm and a leg for so competitors can use it. Lets forget this being open source either becuase we all know what happened when someone tried to distribute the DeCSS codec that decrypted DVD's so we could watch our movies on any OS we chose.

I'm sure everyone would want a PC that's reliable and we all know nobody makes a reliable OS either. Considering all the bugs that come out for XP on a tri weekly basis sometimes I'm loathe to trust a Windoze platform to encrypt and protect my secure information.

Not only that, content providers would love a way to lock down your music where if you insert a CD it's signals are routed through a part of the system they tell it to. So they can force you to not be able to copy anything or only play it out a audio analog port instead of a optical port to keep perfect copies of the songs being made. Which is against the law that says you can make backup copies of any software/songs you buy becuase it's not the same quality backup.

So now I have to keep my expensive music CD's in my hot car getting ruined by the heat of summer instead of making a backup on a CD that costs me 30 cents and is replacable if it gets melted.

So you have to ask yourselves, are they gunning for your security or their bottom lines?