Microsoft&#39;s spam plan rejected
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Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft&#39;s involvement in the process. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft&#39;s contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal.
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Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.
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Anti-spam vendors hit back on Tuesday against analyst firm Gartner&#39;s claims that the level of spam is falling. &quot;I don&#39;t agree with it at all,&quot; said Mark Sommer, chief technology officer at MessageLabs.
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A technical working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last weekend voted to veto a proposal by Microsoft that was designed to identify the real source of email messages.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has fired another salvo in its ongoing spam battle, this time against porn peddlers who don&#39;t keep their smut inside the digital equivalent of a &quot;Brown Paper Wrapper.
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ISP rejects Microsoft antispam plan after open-source community speaks out.
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Microsoft says it has revised its proposal to weed out spam email to win over sceptical internet engineers who have been reluctant to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Monday  said it had revised its proposal to weed out "spam" e-mail to  win over skeptical Internet engineers who have been reluctant  to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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Microsoft&#39;s patent on the File Allocation Table disk format has been rejected by the US Patent Office, on the grounds that it should never have been granted in the first place.
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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the e-mail.
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In a heavy blow to Microsoft&#39;s intellectual property rights, the US Patent and Trademark Office has initially rejected Microsoft&#39;s patent claims on the universally popular FAT (file allocation table) file system.
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com. The Apache Software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web server, said on Thursday that it wouldn&#39;t support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID, because the licensing terms set by Microsoft Corp.
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Dealing Microsoft a major legal setback, a European court yesterday rejected the software giant&#39;s appeal to suspend antitrust sanctions imposed by European regulators in March.
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The controversial attempt to attack spammers by bombarding their web sites with traffic from thousands of individual PCs is over. After a week of heavy criticism of the company&#39;s plan to launch denial-of-service
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Email users inundated with unsolicited &quot;spam&quot; messages have reason to hope Microsoft will develop better tools for tackling the problem: Bill Gates is suffering more than anyone.
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ISP rejects Microsoft antispam plan amid concerns from open-source community.
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The European Union&#39;s Court of First Instance has rejected Microsoft&#39;s appeal of the European Commission&#39;s 2004 landmark antitrust decision against the company, which concluded that the software giant had abused its dominant position in the computer industry &quot;by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems.&quot;