From PC WEEK, Nov 21, 1994, a summary:
Bill Gates demonstrated an HTML browser/editor for MS Word 6.0. It is called Internet Assistant. It just entered beta testing, and will be available under the "What's New" heading of the Microsoft Home Page by the end of December, and later it will come with the 32-bit version of Word for WIN95. It will also include a viewer which will "display any Word document distributed across a network." I've read that the PGP code is not highly modular, but this is just one more indication of an OLE document centric universal editor based loosely on Word. I could eventually see their mail product calling most of the same code. Has anyone considered OLE compliant PGP encrypter/decrypter objects that would act on the contents of the document? A tool on this platform could be the most rapid path to widespread use of encryption. Almost everyone is able to use Word, and it comes bundled with a *lot* of new computers. And if it is OLE compliant, it can drop inside of your favorite OLE aware application. -pd-