AW: Microsoft launches e-sign client

Anders,

yes, please some follow-up information would be great.

TIA, Gregor

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-ietf-xmldsig-
> request@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Ed Simon
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 00:27
> An: 'Anders Rundgren'; w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
> Betreff: RE: Microsoft launches e-sign client
> 
> 
> Thank you Anders,
> 
> If you, or others, know of an online article about Microsoft's C2G
client,
> please point it out.
> 
> Regards, Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Anders Rundgren
> Sent: November 15, 2004 5:34 PM
> To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
> Subject: Microsoft launches e-sign client
> 
> 
> My request a year ago:
>
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2003OctDec/0072.html
> 
> How it turned out...
> 
> Microsoft today pre-announced the availability of a smart client for
> handling e-signatures for C2G (Citizen-to-Government) services and
similar
> on-line activities.  The announcement was made in the paper edition of
> Computer Sweden,  by MSFT spokesman Predrag Mitrovic.
> 
> It may look a bit surprising that the announcement was not in CNET but
the
> fact is that Liliput country Sweden have magnitudes more on- line
> consumers
> with digital certificates than for example the US.
> Something between 8-10% of the population currently have an electronic
> citizen-ID and at least 5% are actively using such for on-line banking.
> 
> The EU governments are likely to appreciate this initiative as existing
> e-signature solutions in addition to [also] being proprietary, usually
are
> NDA-protected and fairly costly.  My assumption is that the Microsoft
> solution will be free and a default install although it may not run on
> older
> Windows versions.
> 
>