MS Patent for DRM OS

[Adrian Midgley]

On Friday 14 December 2001 20:44, you wrote:

> Is it possible that the plan is to make the secure OS incompatible
> with existing applications? Then, if legislations can be "persuaded"
> to require a secure OS, everyone would have to pay to upgrade both OS
> and applications - which would be a nice earner for the software
> supplier. Or is this too cynical a suggestion?

So that is why Outlook!

It makes sense.  Nobody would believe that Outlook, or presumably its far=
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Exchange, could be made secure after all that has transpired, and thesame=
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probably applies to the whole Concept of Word etc.

Conspiracies are so much more fun than incompetence and carelessness.

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