When Microsoft announced the name change to NGSCB, the stated reason was that the name Palladium was trademarked, and that the trademark holders, Palladium books, were not willing to allow Microsoft use of the mark. However, this interpretation is inconsistent with trademark law in the US, in which it is usually possible for two or more marks to be held on the same name so long as the rights-holders do not use the marks for trade in the same industry. It is possible that Microsoft's decision to abandon the name was influenced by bad publicity surrounding the product[9].
When originally announced, NGSCB was expected to be part of the then next major version of the Windows Operating System, Windows Vista (then known as Longhorn). However, in May 2004, Microsoft was reported to have shelved the NGSCB project[7]. This was quickly denied by Microsoft who released a press release stating that they were instead "revisiting" their plans[8]. The majority of features of NGSCB are now not expected to be available until well after the release of Windows Vista. However, Vista will include "BitLocker" which can make use of a Trusted Platform Module chip to facilitate secure startup and full-drive encryption.