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E-Mail Controls in Office 2003

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 21, 2003 @01:09AM from the inevitable-results dept.

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."

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Re:not going to stop leaks by blastedtokyo · 2003-10-21 01:13 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually they thought of that. Cut/paste/print screen are disabled. Of course you can take a digital camera to it or write your own screen capture app but the intent is to prevent casual forwarding.
The real agenda? by femto · 2003-10-21 01:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

from the article:
>Microsoft says a free viewing program will be available for those who receive a protected document but are not using Office 2003.
Why would one need a special reader if email standards are adhered to? Presumably this is an attempt to hijack the email system by getting all Office users to send email in a format which is unreadable by non-Office users. The only way to read email from a windows user will be to get a copy of Office 2003.
Personally I will be replying to all such emails with a polite message that the message got garbled in transmision and could the sender please fix the problem in their system.