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Microsoft lets your IT manager wipe your phone

Microsoft lets your IT manager wipe your phone

Just weeks after releasing its latest operating system for mobiles, Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft has unveiled a security and messaging features top-up.

Among the changes the new feature pack will bring will be faster access to Outlook, remote device wiping abilities and certificate-based identity authentication.

Source: sillicon.com

Comments

  1. mr_rizla
    mr_rizla Connect Anywhere (A Microsoft/Vodafone/HP mobility venture) also allowed you to do this.

    The idea being that if your PDA or smartphone get stolen, next time the device attempts to sync for e-mail etc it will receive a "suicide pill" that wipes the device. Protects against sensitive information.

    Damn good plan if you ask me: - Exchange SP2 and M5.0 are going to remove the need for 80% or the people out there to have a RIM or Synchrologic server installed in addition to their Exchange!

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