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Microsoft is working on building its own anti-spam software, as well as an anti-virus offering that will compete with Symantec. Apparently Brightmail receives about 85% of its revenue from only 5% of its customer base, with Microsoft alone accounting for more than 10% of total revenue and the world's larger ISPs around 50%. Symantec had already invested US$18 million in Brightmail back in 2000 for an 11% stake.

Brightmail had only just posted its first profit (US$1.2 million) in fiscal year ending January '04, with revenue jumping from $12 million to $26 million. Seems like company valuations reminiscent of the dot-com boom are back if you are an anti-virus and/or anti-spam company. While sorting out a potential virus problem for friends recently, I noticed Symantec has purchased Brightmail, a high flying anti-spam provider, for US$370 million. If you're on a tight budget and looking for a good drawing tool, check it out. In essence, you can create graphics that have the look of traditional media. Before Microsoft changes its mind, you might want to check it out, as Expression 3 is available as a free download at: Expression has the features you'd expect in a vector-based illustration package, but in addition it has the ability to mimic brush, pen, pastel, wash and palette knife effects. Creature House had an innovative vector-based illustration and graphics tool called Expression available for both MS Windows and Mac OS.

Microsoft purchased the Creature House technology and development team in 2003. Try using the forums to provide some feedback. The 3rd generation version of is now online, complete with phpBB based forums, plus some updates to the content as I worked through the web pages.Īnyway, check it out and let me know what you think.

Using a Dynamic HTML and JavaScript based menu, would enable the site pages to load faster, and be more search engine friendly.Īnother goal was to make site navigation easier, by implementing the method I had first developed whilst building the Omniton web site, a few months earlier.Īnyway the job is done. My experience with new generation screens running at better than 96 dpi showed this concept had a limited life. One priority was to get rid of the use of graphic files for the site navigation elements. However, an initial look at how to use those features in a way that fitted in with the existing web site design revealed that a design refresh would be a good idea. Just a few weeks ago, I switched to a new web site hosting provider, and gained access to a wide range of new features and services, including support for CGI, Perl and PHP languages, plus MySQL databases. Monday, JThe third generation of Lloyd's web site

Microsoft creature house expression 3 etc