Microsoft has brought eight more lawsuits against bulk emailers under the Can Spam Act. The suits were filed in a Washington state court and bring to 80 the total number of spam cases the software maker has filed worldwide.

An email security software vendor reports that compliance with the federal Can Spam Act is at its lowest point since the law was enacted in January. MX Logic Inc. scanned various samplings of unsolicited commercial email and found that compliance with Can Spam dropped from 3% in April to 1% in May.

Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Virtual Server 2005 software and announced that the product would ship by the end of the year in two versions: an Enterprise Edition and a Standard Edition.

On Monday afternoon, Microsoft released the much-anticipated second release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Open Relay Filter is a high-performance spam filtering extension for Microsoft IIS SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 servers. ORF employs multiple filtering technologies, such as DNS blacklists, keyword and attachment filtering to identify spam and other kind of unwanted emails.

A New York company that makes Internet pop-up ads has asked a judge to block enforcement of Utah’s new Spyware Control Act pending resolution of the firm’s challenge to the law’s constitutionality. WhenU.com Inc. claims the law that took effect last month is "arbitrary and Draconian" and violates its free-speech rights.

Microsoft notified 177 employees working out of its Findlay, Ohio, offices that the company had decided to close its facilities there. Findlay is home to primarily to Microsoft Business Solutions’ Solomon team, but also includes other members of the server and tools, field service and operations teams.

Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook adds mobile SMS messaging capabilities to your Outlook application by connecting your Outlook with a Windows Mobile Smartphone or Pocket PC Phone Edition device. It allows you to exchange text messages with other mobile phone users anywhere around the world directly from your Outlook and manage your SMS data with ease.

A US government agency agreed this week to re-examine a controversial Microsoft patent on the Windows file format, following an objection from a public-interest group. In April, the Public Patent Foundation asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke a patent that covers the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, the older of two main systems used by Windows to store files.

The Radicati Group released a new whitepaper that offers a high level view of the email security market, addresses key customer requirements and presents an overview of BorderWare’s MXtreme Mail Firewall Solution, a Common Criteria EAL4 certified firewall solution that focuses heavily on email security applications. Borderware has posted a ..pdf of the Radicati Whitepaper on their site.