Microsoft has detailed its forthcoming privacy and security plans, which include

enhancements to Internet Explorer 7 and the addition of digital rights management

software into applications at the document level.
Despite earlier plans not to do a browser update until Longhorn's release in 2006, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates confirmed that code for IE 7 will be available this summer in beta and in full by Christmas. The browser will incorporate antivirus technology from recently acquired Sybari, and enhanced anti-phishing software. "Anti-phishing will definitely be built in to IE 7," said Brendon Lynch, senior privacy strategist ... more