Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts

An anonymous reader writes "Bill Gates announces new focus at Microsoft to abolish spam. Read the announcement titled Toward a Spam-Free Future."

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How can MS profit?

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To help, we have assembled a massive and still growing database of spam, collected from volunteers among our millions of MSN and Hotmail subscribers. This database will prove invaluable later this year when we release Outlook 2003, which will include a new, smart filter that will access the database to recognize and block spam more effectively. The filter in Outlook 2003 also will be updated frequently and easily, as with Windows Update today.

Should be read as:

To help MS make more money, we have collected the email of millions of idiots who haven't read their EULAs. This database will prove invaluable later when we mine it for whatever data we want. With the release of Outlook2003, we will have new, smarter ways of adding your email to our database to recognize and block your own unwanted email more effectively, while allowing all virii through. The shear number of patches for Outlook2003 has forced us to adopt a Windows update structure that automatically runs daily, or more often if we let people announce all of our new security enhanced security holes.

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