Microsoft is preparing for release to the public of a beta version of antispyware technology it purchased last month, but it will delay promised antispam and antivirus improvements to the Exchange e-mail server, according to information provided by the company.
Microsoft is on target to release a public beta of its antispyware software by January 16, one month after the company acquired the software by purchasing Giant Company Software, a company spokesperson says.
The Redmond, Washington, software maker will release a free evaluation version of Giant AntiSpyware, though a spokesperson declined to identify an exact release date, or to discuss the functionality to be included in the release program.
Microsoft would not comment on information published on Microsoft enthusiast Web site Neowin.net that a beta version of the software, code-named Atlanta, has already been distributed to internal testers. Neowin.net also posted screenshots supposedly taken from a product called Microsoft AntiSpyware.
The company commonly tests products internally first, a process it calls “dogfooding”; but the spokesperson would not say whether the antispyware software had been distributed to employees.
OMG let the jokes begin. -KF
Source: PC World
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