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Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11
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."
No, really!
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EAT MY CUNT you second rate posters! You know it tastes good, all creamy and steamy!
Survey results
1. Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn and many other celebrities have voiced their opposition to a looming war with Iraq. Have their views had an influence on your own views on the war?
97.28% 1357 votes No
2.72% 38 votes Yes
2. Do you believe the celebrity anti-war movement has had an impact on the president or other politicians?
92.98% 1298 votes No
7.02% 98 votes Yes
3. Do you think it is appropriate for celebrities to publicly voice their views on the war?
58.17% 812 votes No
41.83% 584 votes Yes
4. Does a celebrity's decision to speak out against the war make you admire that person less or more or have no impact on how you view that celebrity?
67.41% 941 votes Admire less
22.99% 321 votes No impact
9.6% 134 votes Admire more
Total votes cast: 1396
To Summarize: Celebrities have no influence on me personally, my government in general, shouldn't voice their opinions anyway, and makes me lose what little respect I had for them in the first place.
Hoorah!
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
and Office 2000 if you really have to use MS software. Short of that, I can't see how StarOffice or openoffice would fail to do most of what these Nazi-suites do.
'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels
A S T R O T U R F E R
Dear France,
Please shove your worthless heads as far up your respective candy-asses as they will go at your earliest opportunity.
Your really impressive Monsieur Chirac is nothing but a bully and the New European countries he's been belittling will one day be dictating terms of surrender to you in the Palace of Versailles. Of course, surrendering to weaker countries is nothing new at all to you, is it?
F U C K T A R D
Oh come on, people. This is not Insightful, this is a complete troll.
PGP is a general-purpose encryption tool. It's an open standard with several implimentations, both commercial and not. It is all around great stuff.
Office 11's DRM stuff is NOT an open standard, WILL require millions of users and businesses to re-pay the "Microsoft Tax", and WILL shut out any hope of interoperability with any other office suite by making it illegal, under the DMCA, for other developers to try and reverse-engineer it. It may be USEFUL, don't get me wrong, but for the above reasons, it's pretty damn evil.
It's a pretty clear-cut issue. If RedHat came out with this, or Mandrake, or Debian, the response would be exactly the same, if not even MORE harsh. We expect this from Microsoft, as evil as they are; if a Linux distro tried to pull it, we'd all freak out.
Doug