For example:
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In order to get the program to run on a palladium platform, you will need to pay to have your binary certified as "safe" by Microsoft's software authentification branch.
False. Palladium's "authorized software" is already in Windows 2000 and Windows XP - it just warns you before installing something that Microsoft has not tested under the OS. When installing my nVidia drivers, for example, XP asked me if I wanted to continue installing them, 'cause they hadn't been tested by MS. Doesn't stop you from installing it.
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The "secure network". This is the real clincher for Palladium. At first, they're going to make it so that it is possible to turn Palladium off at the hardware level. But it is created in such a way so that, if you try to connect to a Palladium web server, you won't be allowed to. Palladium machines will only be able to talk to other Palladium machines, and non-Palladium machines won't be able to talk to any Palladium machines.
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRONG. Non-Palladium machines will have a few restrictions - for example, they won't be able to link into things like Microsoft's Passport system. They can still access a Palladium-enabled server as usual.
Most of the stuff in that article are also so blatantly illegal that they'd be sued instantly if it was true. MS had enough trouble for bundling IE for free - does ANYONE honestly belive that they'd get away with the stuff that paranoid article says they will?
I'll let Penny Arcade do my conclusion: