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Re:Lenovo announces laptops using new mobile Xeon processors by jonorossi on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:10AM (#10046308)
As others have said there seems to only be a single Word document Microsoft have published on the "Windows Platform Binary Table". I then found the following MSDN Forums question (with posts between 2013-07-16 and 2013-07-18) about how to implement WPBT by someone with the username "kevinwu1980". A Google search for "kevinwu1980 lenovo" gave me this (the page is now a redirect). If that MSDN Forums post is by the same guy then Lenovo was likely working on this in mid-2013:

> Kernel Service Protection for Client Security

> doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2010.112

> by HJK Wu - ‎2010

> ... for Client Security. Hui Jun (Kevin) Wu , Lenovo Global Desktop Development Laboratory ..... Contact him at [email protected] or [email protected].

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-U...

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Re:Lenovo announces laptops using new mobile Xeon processors by chuckup on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:23AM (#10046355)
Wow, nice find!

Also, I see Microsoft has updated that document in the last two weeks, apparently due to Lenovo's use of it.

http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013

"a security vulnerability that was discovered ..by an independent security researcher, Roel Schouwenberg... As a result of these findings, Microsoft recently released updated security guidelines...on how to best implement this Windows BIOS feature."

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