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Microsoft CEO details company`s security measures in e-mail
Seattle, May 08: Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $250 million developing technology to control how users view or share copyrighted or sensitive material, and hopes to make computing more secure in the future, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said.
Seattle, May 08: Microsoft Corp. has spent more than
$250 million developing technology to control how users view
or share copyrighted or sensitive material, and hopes to make
computing more secure in the future, Microsoft Chief Executive
Steve Ballmer said.
In an e-mail sent to 500,000 customers, suppliers and
partners yesterday evening, Ballmer laid out Microsoft's case
for developing technology in the touchy area of digital rights
management.
``During the past decade, computers and the internet have
transformed the way we work, learn, communicate and are
entertained,'' Ballmer said. ``Yet some of technology's potent
al to do even more has not been fully realized, because of
concerns a bout illegal use of digital information, about
confidentiality and a bout privacy.''
Microsoft wants to lay the foundation for protecting
digital content, said Ray Wagner, a research director with
Gartner. It's up to the film and music companies to choose how
to deploy the technology and how restrictive it should be,
with the marketplace as the judge, he said.
The e-mail reflects Microsoft's efforts to try to ease
the concerns of a public skeptical about heavy restrictions on
their use of content and the company's role as a guardian,
Wagner said.
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