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May 24, 2005
MS to Lock Up Office Documents, Lock In Customers
Posted by Ernest Miller
C|Net News reports on a couple of initiatives by Microsoft to bring more security into the workplace (Facing 'New World of Work,' Microsoft Locks Up Office). Apparently Microsoft will be adding new forms of DRM to their popular office suite so that companies have more control over where their internal documents can go. Strangely, the article never bothers to ask whether this technology will have an open protocol or will be used to lock in customers as it locks up documents.
The article also discusses a new, corporate form of IM that is subject to centralized control by the corporation:
"What happened is the dynamic of IM changed when people knew it was being logged," Greifeld said. But both Capossela and Greifeld said that the change is not necessarily a bad thing.
"For us, the value of instant messaging isn't the sideshow where people get to have private conversations," Capossela said. "The value of instant messaging is the ability to connect with somebody absolutely real-time and to have that quick burst back and forth."
Privacy is such an antiquated concept.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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