Intel pushes PC virtualization as high-tech child-proofing

The hype-fest that is the Intel Developer Forum brought to light a very curious plan to pass off virtualization technology for the desktop under the guise of being useful as a child-proofing tool. Virtualization is the technology that will allow you to run multiple simultaneous operating systems on your computer. For a server class sytem this is a very attractive feature, but it's not exactly clear how the average home user would benefit from this technology. Intel suggests you might want to separate out an OS just for the kids so that, according to Intel desktop marketing director Bill Leszinske, they don't mess with the family Quicken files. Yeah Bill, we're sure it's your, uh, "Quicken" files
(wink, wink) you most want to keep hidden from the rest of the family. The IDF crowd had lots of reasonable questions that Intel had no answers to, but virtualization will be rolling out all the same in the new Itanium processor rev out later this year, with Xeons and mobile chips in tow. Seriously now, what's up with this
fixation on controlling our kids? Can't Intel just call a spade a spade and start marketing this as the Pr0n Partition, already?