E-Mail Controls in Office 2003

TiggsPanther writes "The BBC's Technology News reports than the next version of MS Office will include E-Mail controls which should limit way that e-mail messages can be forwarded. Being tied into the Information Rights Management concept, it might be interesting to see how quickly this gets taken up."

Comments

Most Important Changes

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft has also tweaked Word, Excel and Powerpoint, though the most obvious change is a new, blue colour scheme.

Ahh, priorities. Is that the same "BSOD" shade of blue I see far too often? Where do I send my $ for the upgrade?

Wrong

[tbone1]

The days when you could forward an embarrassing e-mail to your colleagues could be a thing of the past.

Uh, no. Nothing is foolproof because fools are just too damned clever.

Re:Suitable quote..

[squaretorus]

I can't wait to tell everyone I know that sending emails like "isnt the boss a dick" and " julie from accounts has nice tits" to each other is now 100% SAFE because of the new Outlook options to stop forwarding.

Hilarity ensues!

Re:not going to stop leaks

[Keck]

my thoughts exactly; if it's REALLY important, someone will still do it, so this is a lot of effort for almost no gain. Except to piss off your paying customers, something that helps us free software folks .. maybe it's got a good side afterall?

Re:Another example of Microsoft "innovation"

[PaulGrimshaw]

new, blue colour scheme.

See.. they always said the BSOD was a feature !! :)

Paul.

Re:Only on Outlook 2003?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a good thing.

Outlook/Office users will no longer be able to communicate with normal standard Internet users. The MS environment will become part of the internal corporate network and will become quarantined from the Internet at large.

Outlook/Office documents will drop out of the Internet. No more VBA/VBS worms, woo-hoo!

Worm ?

[cwernli]

should limit way that e-mail messages can be forwarded.

But it won't stop Outlook to be vulnerable to any kind of attack, such as a worm which "forwards" itself to everybody in your address book ?

Text-To-Speech

[Saint Stephen]

Just turn on text-to-speech features for the blind, capture the output, and then later use speech-to-text.

If they disable features for the blind, sue Microsoft.

PROFIT!

Re:Only looking out for themselves with this

[lonb]

Actually, I heard that O2003 alters the display frequency to make photography impossible. It also disables the ability of paper within the surrounding six feet of the computer unable to bond with any other chemicals. It also disables:

• Smoke Signals
• Loud yelling
• Short term and photographic memory of humans and chimpanzees
• Chalk
• Finger painting
• Sign language
• Clever blinking AND winking techniques
• Irish folk dancing
• Everything that has a penguin on it

Re:Yeah, and it'll stop paraphrasing too. Not.

[BenjyD]

Of course, it will if MS makes wearing a DRM Helmet part of the EULA.

Re:Some facts

[0123456]

PHB solution: force all users to wear blindfolds while in the office so they can't read the mail they've copied.