As many have pointed out in other comments implementing this kind of feature is not easy without messing around with too many OS areas.
DRM can be useful for things like sending a script to a studio and having it DRMed in an internet-wide service, that way you can prove that you send them the script. A bit like the post-office comment below or like having a "patent" on the document you send.
However this is quite possible already, and we don't really need MS for this. What we need is an internet wide CA that could do this and certify web-sites and validate digital sigs, etc, etc.
Anyway, if what MS plans to do is to integrate this "certifying" functionality into Office, that will certainly be used. But think, controlling access to documents within a company can _already_ be done with OS level access restrictions!!! Why would anyone use yet another cumbersome way to dome something that you can already do? Beats me. (Unless they want to "ease" the usability of the OS-level restrictions...)
My feeling is that the "marketing bs" that is in that article (notice that they never quote a technical guy, only "analysts") is nothing but trying the idea on the public and seeing if the idea sticks... A bit like governments do... and MS is as big as one!;)
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DRM can be useful for things like sending a script to a studio and having it DRMed in an internet-wide service, that way you can prove that you send them the script. A bit like the post-office comment below or like having a "patent" on the document you send.
However this is quite possible already, and we don't really need MS for this. What we need is an internet wide CA that could do this and certify web-sites and validate digital sigs, etc, etc. Anyway, if what MS plans to do is to integrate this "certifying" functionality into Office, that will certainly be used. But think, controlling access to documents within a company can _already_ be done with OS level access restrictions!!! Why would anyone use yet another cumbersome way to dome something that you can already do? Beats me. (Unless they want to "ease" the usability of the OS-level restrictions...)
My feeling is that the "marketing bs" that is in that article (notice that they never quote a technical guy, only "analysts") is nothing but trying the idea on the public and seeing if the idea sticks... A bit like governments do... and MS is as big as one! ;)