Submission + - Using Microsoft's anti-spam software to fight AIDS (businessweek.com)
mjasay writes: "Every once in awhile, Microsoft does something very right. Microsoft's anti-spam technology and a Windows server farm, along with some innovative thinking from Microsoft researcher David Heckerman, are helping to crack the HIV code. Why is Microsoft in the AIDS research game (especially given that its own desktop software has been a bit of an STD itself)? Because it's in the anti-spam game, and it turns out there are some similarities between the two. This sort of cross-industry pollination should happen more often, to better both software and other industries."