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Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11

Posted by michael on from the can't-touch-this dept.

conaone writes "According to a Microsoft Watch, there is a feature in the leaked Office 2003 called "Information Rights Management." A lot more control over documents with this... the story says: "Microsoft is threading DRM throughout the Office 2003 suite, allowing restrictions to be set on Outlook mail messages, as well as on Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Using "permission templates," document authors can determine restriction policies to be applied to entire categories of documents, according to Microsoft's site." Here's a link to the whole story."

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  1. This shouldn't concern anyone on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because none of us are using Microsoft products or file formats... right?

  2. Re:If they want to use their own dog food... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was at MS for a job interview in the not so distant past and a lot of office doors have signs that say "OFFICE XP FREE OFFICE - DOG FOOD SUCKS" with a picture of an 11 with the circle/slash through it. Some people even went so far as to have pictures of the software and a dog taking a dump on it. I asked around and a lot of people were like "yeah, it's pretty divided. Even the Office team isn't too impressed by it."

    Posting AC since I signed that nasty NDA you know.. And - yes, I did get an offer, and yes, I did laugh at them.