Microsoft employee on Vista: “I wouldn’t buy it with someone else’s money. Then again what do I know, I’ve only been testing the dog for the last 2-3 yrs”. … and the built in search could be called something lucky like Alta Vista. PC Pro: News: Microsoft employees call for Ballmer to go

Craig Newmark has a proposal to counter Goodmail. craigblog: a big advance for spam and phishing fighting? The problem with Craig’s proposal – that authorized, digitally signed email passes through spam filters – is that it doesn’t create a sender ‘cost’. This therefore cannot be a true cure against spam, since spam is a product of almost zero cost for the sender. As we are seeing, costs are always introduced in any marketplace, and with email being free to send, the self-emergent cost, in dealing with spam, is passed to the receiver. The postal service did not grow exponentially until it switched from a receiver to a sender pays model, and US cellphone use lags other developed nations because both call sender and recipients pay. If neither sender and recipient pay, as with email it seems that the recipient ends up paying. So the Goodmail solution plays into the way…