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UK firms should adhere to new Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules introduced last week, designed to crack down on spam, say experts.

Organisations that adopt the ASA guidelines will be better equipped to comply with new European Union led laws due to come into force later this year, which will introduce similar measures backed with stiff penalties.

The new ASA code requires firms to obtain explicit consent from consumers before using their data for marketing via email or SMS.

Companies were formerly free to use an opt-out method, where the default option is to accept advertising and where consumers must uncheck a box to avoid being subscribed to marketing lists.

The EU Privacy and Communications Directive backs up the ASA's guide in enforcing opt-in methods, and also applies to websites.

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Word XML Content Development Kit (CDK)

Intended use: This is highly recommended

Expected or anticipated utility: The Microsoft Word XML Content Development Kit provides an overview and reference information on XML in Microsoft Word, the user interface, customer-defined schema support, the WordML schema, and the Schema Library, as well as a sample. It is for solution developers.

xmlcdkb2.msi (4.42 MB)

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Smart Tag and Smart Doc Software Developers Kit (SDK)

Intended use: Optional but highly recommended

Expected or anticipated utility: Facilitate developers who want to create smart documents and smart tags.

stsdsdkb2.msi (4.7 MB)

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The Excel XML Content Developers Kit (CDK)

Intended use: This is highly recommended

Expected or anticipated utility: The Microsoft Excel XML Content Development Kit provides an overview and reference information on XML in Microsoft Word, the user interface, customer-defined schema support, the ExcelML schema, and the Schema Library, as well as a sample. It is for solution developers.

ExcelXMLB2.msi (0.4 MB)

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Microsoft Office Research Software Developers Kit (SDK)

Intended use: This is highly recommended

Expected or anticipated utility: To help research providers who want to provide research content to Office users.

RSDKB2.msi (1.3 MB)

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The Office Resource Kit

Intended use: Recommended

Expected or anticipated utility: KitTools, information, and examples you need to customize and deploy Microsoft Office System 2003 throughout your organization. Designed for the information technology (IT) professional, the Resource Kit provides information about deployment strategies, international support, and messaging services.

ork.exe (8.91 MB)

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Microsoft Office System 2003 Web Parts and Components

Intended use: Optional for Windows SharePoint Services beta2 but highly recommended to get fullest feature set between WSS v.2 beta2 servers and Office 2003 beta2 clients.

Expected or anticipated utility: Primary audience is the SharePoint server administrators within organizations investing in SharePoint beta rollouts and Office 2003 beta client rollouts. The administrator is the decision maker for whether this download should be run on target Windows servers where SharePoint is already running. Individual end users won't run setup and can't run it on non-server machines. They see the features show up on the sites when they go to customize or create new pages or subwebs after the admin has installed the package.

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