Microsoft co-founder
Paul Allen
has made a comeback with the launch of his latest venture, Xiant,
which has developed a product to manage Outlook InBoxes.
The software, called Xiant Filer, integrates with Outlook and
tracks the way users file e-mail messages. It recommends filing
options based on the user's filing habits.
The company said Xiant Filer also simplifies mailbox management
by enabling filing across multiple e-mails through its file by
sender, file by thread, and file by topic features.
Xiant is one of Paul Allen's few forays into software since
leaving Microsoft in 1983 to start his own business and
philanthropic foundation. Allen was largely regarded as the brains
behind Microsoft when he joined Bill Gates to develop a version of
the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer, the
MITS Altair.
A beta version of Xiant Filer is
now
available on a 60-day trial.
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