Microsfoft co-founder answers email dilemma

June 26, 2009:Xiant has released a public beta version of ts first product, Xiant Filer, to help computer users stay on top of the increasingly time-consuming task of organizing email inboxes.

Xiant Filer is an email organizer for Outlook available as a free beta download at Xiant.com and created by technology innovator/Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and engineers at Vulcan Technologies, whose challenge was to ease management of overflowing Microsoft Office Outlookinboxes.

“It’s a return of sorts to Paul’s roots,” said Chris Purcell, vice president of Vulcan Technologies, LLC. “Xiant Filer started as a personal project to help Paul keep up with heavy e-mail traffic. It worked so well we all started using it, which led us to take it to market.”

This is one of Paul Allen’s few forays into software since leaving Microsoft in 1983 to start his own business and philanthropic foundation. It won’t be lost on his former colleagues that Paul has returned to the software world with something that improves on one of Microsoft’s keystone products.

Xiant Filer promises to make anyone a more efficient user of e-mail. It integrates seamlessly into Outlook and starts r learns your filing preferences, so its recommendations become more accurate the more you use it. It also allows you to simultaneously file batches of related messages without wasting time by first sorting and then making multiple selections.