Microsoft Planning Digital Restrictions Server

Jon James writes "Microsoft is pushing further into digital rights management with a plan for a DRM server due to go into beta testing later this year, eWeek is reporting. Microsoft has already applied for a patent for a DRM operating system but would not say if the DRM server would be based on this. In an interview last week with eWeek, Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president for platforms, said a DRM server is but one of three server infrastructure applications coming next year."

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"Palladium will not require DRM..."

[dpbsmith]

Just a couple of months ago microsoft was insisting that they had nothing to do with that nasty DRM stuff: "Palladium will not require DRM, and DRM will not require Palladium. Palladium is a great complementary technology to the DRM solutions of tomorrow, but the two are separate technologies," spin, spin, blah blah blah.

All Microsoft was going to do was provide a nice NEUTRAL technology whose main use was going to be to allow you and me to set policies on our personal machines to stop spam, viruses, and international terrorists.

All that stuff about their patent on a "DRMOS" was just a misunderstanding.

And already they're selling a DRM server. Come on, Microsoft, our memories are short but they're not THAT short.

If proof were needed that Microsoft's interests are no longer aligned with those of end-users, this is it.

Re:Palladium: the dark age of computing

[Com2Kid]

Checking the "separate sig lines from comments" box in your /. preferences would sure make your complaining less necessary.

(waaaait, you mean there are users who have NOT checked that little box yet? Odd)