Microsoft and VeriSign plan to announce on Tuesday that they will work together to offer secure Web services and enhanced digital rights management. The deal builds on technology in Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 that allows access to data using digital signatures. Digital-signature technology, which uses a variant of the mathematics behind encryption, lets people digitally sign data and verify their identity online. VeriSign, which makes server software that manages such signatures on a large scale, plans to launch a service that will take advantage of the new Windows Server 2003 features.
By working together, Microsoft and VeriSign hope to make authenticated Web services easier to use and more likely to interoperate. "It is that combination that brings (companies) a lot of the benefits," said Nico Popp, vice president of Research and Advanced Products for VeriSign. Suppliers that want to bid on a corporate contract, for example, could provide the potential client with their digitally signed proposals, which would then be authenticated through VeriSign's digital signature system. A company sending e-mail to a partner could mark the digital document with a rights-management tag indicating that it should be inaccessible a week later.
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By working together, Microsoft and VeriSign hope to make authenticated Web services easier to use and more likely to interoperate. "It is that combination that brings (companies) a lot of the benefits," said Nico Popp, vice president of Research and Advanced Products for VeriSign. Suppliers that want to bid on a corporate contract, for example, could provide the potential client with their digitally signed proposals, which would then be authenticated through VeriSign's digital signature system. A company sending e-mail to a partner could mark the digital document with a rights-management tag indicating that it should be inaccessible a week later.
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Important While you can upgrade from Exchange 2003 RC1 Standard Edition to Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition, you cannot downgrade from Exchange 2003 RC1 Enterprise Edition to the released version of Exchange 2003 Standard Edition. As a workaround, you must uninstall Exchange 2003 RC1 Enterprise Edition before installing the released version of Exchange 2003 Standard Edition.
Please Note: This build differs to the build that leaked onto the internet labelled as Exchange 2003 RC1, this build is 6940.4 whereas the leaked build is 6895.5.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
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