Saturday, March 18, 2006
Keeping the kids safe - microsoft
Microsoft has detailed its plans to offer a Web-based program that will let parents control and monitor their children's online activity.
It will be a free program called Windows Live Family Safety Settings. The program will include Web content filtering, activity reports and the ability for parents to specify the people with whom their children can communicate online.
The program ispart of the broader Windows Live rang of products and will be rolled out publicly in stages over the course of this year.
PCs on which the program is installed will require children to log in, even if they're not at home. The program will then apply the settings established by their parents. This is ok if the kids remember to log on or don’t access a publicly available computer possibly using a different browser than Microsofts Internet Explorer products.
