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Microsoft co-founder launches email filing venture
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is launching Xiant, a software company that helps people organise their email accounts. The company's first product, which is still being tested, is an add-on to Microsoft Outlook called Xiant Filer.
Xiant suggests where mail should be stored based on previous filing preferences, instead of requiring users to write filing instructions in Outlook. Xiant spokesman David Postman explains: "You just right-click and it suggests where it thinks you might want to file it. The more you do it, the more it learns those things."
The product was originally designed for Allen himself. His investment company, Vulcan Technologies, claims that Allen asked his developers to come up with an email management system for his over-crowded inbox. It says the product worked so well he decided to turn it into commercial venture.
The program will start selling at the end of August for about USD39.
