Microsoft purchased Giant Software Company on Thursday. Giant Software Company is a startup that has created a popular anti-spyware program. Most people know the program by the name of I Hate Spam, although this is not the program that is marketed by Giant Software. They licensed the product to another company that sells it under that name. In fact there is now a legal battle going on between Microsoft and the other company. It seems that the other company owns partial rights to various components of the program. This should be interesting.
Last year Microsoft purchased an anti-virus company. It is expected that they will introduce an anti-virus, anti-spyware program sometime before mid-2005. I expect that it will be a paid product instead of a free add in. The anti-monopoly thing will probably insure that. Besides, Microsoft could use another revenue stream!
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