Microsoft Offers Free Sender ID
November 2, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Something absolutely needs to start changing about e-mail and spam. Hopefully this type of thing will be the spark that ignites more and more development in this arena.
Microsoft Corp. has made its Sender ID framework for email authentication license free.
As of Monday, the technology is available through the software maker’s Open Specification Promise, which makes Microsoft technology available to commercial, open source and academic developers for free. Sender ID is the third area of technology Microsoft has released under the OSP.
Email and Internet service providers have been reluctant to license Sender ID from Microsoft. As a result, it has had less adoption in the industry then rival email-authentication technologies, such as DomainKeys Identified Mail, which is favored by Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news), the largest email provider; and network supplier Cisco Systems Inc., experts say.
“By putting Sender ID under the Open Specification Promise, our goal is to put those questions to rest and advance interoperable efforts for online safety worldwide,” Brian Arbogast, corporate vice president of the Windows Live Platform Development Group at Microsoft, said in a statement.
Source: Microsoft Offering Sender ID For Free
