[wos] Microsoft renames drm into rms

[Volker Grassmuck]

Der Gipfel. Microsoft appropriates the name of St. Ignutius himself 
and defame it by making it mean "DRM", of all things. "RMS makes a 
huge change in the market for DRM solutions" -- weird!
/v

 Microsoft Releases Windows Rights Management Services
November 6, 2003
By DRM Watch Staff
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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