More on IRM

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0221microdetai2.html
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109481,00.asp
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-02-25-a.html.

Interesting stuff. There's a lot of things in the Office System 2003 suite that make it fairly obvious why they aren't making this backward compatible to run on Win 98 or NT. The security feature is one of them. It's obvious that without the Right's Management Server none of this stuff makes any sense, and if you're going to put out something like RMS, it needs to go on the most secure platform you can possibly have. There's not a lot of sense in going back to NT Server because you're going to have to gut some of the security features just to make it compatible with old code. That's silly. It only makes sense to run this on 2003 Server, where you can get the full functionality.

On the other hand, it also makes all this stuff a lot more expensive to upgrade to. It'll be interesting to see how many do. I would think that companies that need to have extremely strong information security would want to upgrade and use all of this, but the rest of us? We'll see.
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