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WORKSHARE ANNOUNCES BROAD INTEGRATION WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA AND 2007 MICROSOFT OFFICE SYSTEM

Secure Content Compliance Leader and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Exploits Enterprise Search, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista RMS and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation

New York City and San Francisco—November 30, 2006—Workshare, the global leader in secure content compliance, today announced support for Microsoft Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system across its entire Workshare Protect and Workshare Professional product line. Workshare is delivering new capabilities across the entire content compliance suite.

  • Discovery of compliance risk through direct integration of Workshares Protect policies with Microsoft Enterprise Search, creating an automatic compliance and privacy risk rating for all indexed content.
  • Enhanced Information Leak remediation and incident management utilizing the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Workflow Foundation.
  • Delivery of regulatory policy updates via Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
  • Enhanced document protection and control via policy integration with Windows Vista Rights Management Services and SharePoint Server 2007.
  • Integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system ribbons, Windows Vista gadgets and other new user interface features, improving user productivity and reducing product training time.

Microsoft is taking a huge step forward in how users can safely and efficiently interact with business content, said Joe Fantuzzi, president and CEO of Workshare. We are excited about working with Microsoft to deliver content control, compliance and risk mitigation tools necessary to manage a new generation of business communications. With the majority of content compliance violations coming from knowledge workers, Workshare solutions can reduce this risk without negatively impacting the overall user experience in Microsoft Office applications. In addition, we are able to exploit the new capabilities of the platform to do this faster and better, while allowing our customers and partners standard and straightforward ways to extend our solution.

Workshare has been working closely with Microsoft to build powerful and innovative secure content compliance solutions for our customers, said Allison Watson, corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. Todays launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System is about making it easier for our business customers to find, use and share information. Workshare is extending that value into organizational compliance by delivering solutions designed to meet the secure content compliance needs of customers without disrupting their core business.

About Workshare
Workshare, an information security company, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions to over 5,500 organizations worldwide. Workshare solutions uniquely combine policy enforcement, management control and user education to ensure safe information exchange without business disruption. Its products include Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite, Workshare Professional, DeltaView and TRACE! Workshares customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 58 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. Over one million professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Sydney.. For more information on Workshare and Microsoft, visit http://www.workshare.com/microsoft.