[wos] DRM Watch: Microsoft Releases Windows Rights Management Services

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the following article with the comment "Der Gipfel. Microsoft appropriates the name of St. Ignutius himself. "RMS makes a huge change in the market for DRM solutions" weird!
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DRM Watch: Microsoft Releases Windows Rights Management Services
DRM Watch Staff
11/06/2003


This article can be found online at the following location:
http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3105021





Microsoft

released its Rights Management Services (RMS) software on Tuesday. RMS
is an ASP.NET service that implements a set of DRM capabilities based on
ContentGuard's XrML rights expression language. Launch customers include
Merck and EDS.

RMS is the result of Microsoft's "Unified DRM" initiative over the past
couple of years; it has decided to focus on corporate information security
applications instead of also working to unify its eBook, audio, and video DRM
offerings. Microsoft is targeting RMS specifically at internal corporate
applications; it uses Active Directory for user authentication as well as other
Microsoft components, such as IIS and SQL Server. As for client
applications, RMS can be used today with Office 2003 applications (Word, Excel,
Outlook, and PowerPoint), and a version of Microsoft Internet Explorer that
understands RMS rights specifications will be released later this year.
Microsoft has also released an SDK that several independent software vendors are
already using to develop additional RMS-enabled applications; for example,
GigaMedia Access Corp. has developed
extensions to RMS that make it work in B-to-B applications.

As we noted in our
coverage of
Microsoft's RMS product announcement back in February, the advent of RMS
makes a huge change in the market for DRM solutions targeted at corporate
enterprise applications, a market heretofore dominated by SealedMedia,
Authentica, and others. Those independent solutions have features beyond
what Microsoft is providing, but for those companies that already run Microsoft
server applications, it will be hard to beat RMS for tightness of integration.






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