No Info Rights Management for Office:Mac says M$!?

[hulkaros]

Here is a piece:
"Information Rights Management (IRM) — the elements of RMS that will be embedded in Microsoft Office 2003 — will be available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook once Office 2003 ships commercially this summer. IRM will be included as part of all the SKUs of Office 2003. But Microsoft has no plans to add IRM to its Mac Office product, officials said."

Here is the whole story about stupid M$ (for me) wanting badly to combine IRM with everything Wintel...
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...,995638,00.asp

[binaryDigit]

Well this is a problem isn't it? Not that M$ is going to put drm into Office, but that they are not going to do it for the Mac version. The problem is that then Mac Office users will not be able to use documents that utilize these drm features! I see this as being a bad thing if Windoze Office users start using these features day to day, this could really have a negative impact for those trying to get their Mac use accepted in the corp world.

[fryke]

Well, that's the question. Maybe Office v.X will just OPEN these documents? We'll see, I guess...

[scruffy]

they're embedding elements of Richard Michael Stallman in MS Office? I never thought I'd see the day...

[theed]

yeah, really, RMS is taken. Find a different acronym.

[Giaguara]

I see this digital rights management thing in M$ Office just causing eventually a lot of users to migrate from Windoze to Linux and Macs ...

[fryke]

Won't happen, Gia... Sadly, a lot of people swallow a lot of MS b*llsh*t. They've done it before, they'll do it again. MS is continually driving people on other platforms insane by introducing new incompatibilities to Office... :/

[Giaguara]

Well - converting them will be easier. If they have no $$ to get a new computer (read: a mac) I can always show how to install Linux... O_0