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Months of speculation regarding Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), a k a "Palladium," will end in May, when
Microsoft provides the first live demonstrations of the technology at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.

WinHEC, slated for early May in New Orleans, is typically where Microsoft shows off new operating system advances to its hardware partners.

"We will be having a big coming-out showing on NGSCB at WinHEC," says NGSCB group product manager Mario Juarez.

Microsoft could fold NGS CB support into "Longhorn," the Windows release expected in 2005. It's unclear if NGSCB would be part of the client, server or both releases. Microsoft said last week that the company is contemplating releasing a "Limited Edition" release of Longhorn server that would be timed to hit around the same time as the desktop version."

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