Tianji On September 20th Message Microsoft plans to announce in Paris on September 20 that Microsoft will increase the source of "Office 2003" software released by the beginning of 2003 to the "Government Security Program" of the Government Public Critical Application Source Code. Code to solve the growing concerns of government agencies growing. Microsoft's "Government Security Program" originally allowed to allow other national governments to view key source code for the current version of Windows operating system.
Microsoft said that the goal of this move is to let other governments of IT staff for more comprehensive security audits, and produce personalized applications on the basis of Microsoft products. However, people are widely believed that Microsoft's move is to cope with the increasing interest of government agencies on Linux. Currently, many government agencies put Linux a priority position.
This program involves 60 countries with Microsoft's consideration sufficient intellectual property protection capabilities, including most countries in Europe.
Jason Matusow, Microsoft Shared Source Code Program Manager, said that governments have widely used the plan to view the Windows source code. They asked Microsoft to expand the scope of this plan, especially to increase the source code of Office.
Matusow said that in addition to security, specific issues concerned about Office include better understanding of the file system, making Office software compatible with other applications. Governments are also worried that document archive and ensure long-term access to these documents.
Microsoft has disclosed source code for Office 2003's XML language to store files. However, most of the proprietary file formats in Office 2003 still have not disclosed, such as the .doc file format used in Word.
Matusow said that the problem is currently talking about whether this issue is still too early for expanding the broader shared source code plan to the public office source code to NGOs. He said that this is Microsoft to disclose the source code of Office for the first time. Microsoft will open the door to a variety of customers and partner dialogue. However, this thing needs to be graduated.
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