Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

[William T Goodall]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 03:33  am, The Fool wrote:

From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 01:52  am, Russell Chapman wrote:

The Fool wrote:.

My understanding is that only outlook can open these messages.
Microsoft
has said it would also provide a small stand alone (DRM) app to open
messages for users of other software.
The Whole point is that it disallows other software from reading it.
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The beauty of this strategy (when combined with the new formats in
Office2003) is that he can wipe out several competing markets at
once.
By bringing DRM into email and Word/Excel documents, and requiring MS

provided apps to read them, he can (and has) simply refused to
provide
them for competing platforms. The decision between a Palm based PDA
and a PocketPC based PDA is going to be very different if suddenly
you
can't read your email or work with your Word and Excel documents on a

PalmOS PDA, but you can on a PocketPC, so he will wipe out one of his

more resilient competitors. Expect Real & Winamp to come in for the
same treatment any day now, and they are on Windows platforms!
Imagine
what else is in store for non-Windows platforms...
'He' being the Great Satan of Redmond? :)
I think that would be a compliment for Satan taught people to reason 
for
themselves and not to trust or rely on so-called authority figures.
Indeed, an honor being named after one of the great fathers of
rationalism.
But the Redmond part still sucks?
--
William T Goodall
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Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs.
- Anguish et al. "Cocoa Programming"
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