Paul G. Allen Launches Xiant to Produce Easy-to-use Software Tools

First product, Xiant Filer(TM), is a powerful and intuitive e-mail organizer, giving needed help to Microsoft Office Outlook(R)

SEATTLE, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Brand-new software company Xiant today released a public beta version of its first product, Xiant Filer, to help computer users stay on top of the increasingly time-consuming task of organizing e-mail in-boxes.

Xiant is a dba of Vulcan Technologies, LLC, of Seattle.

The beta version of Xiant Filer is available at Xiant.com and a 60-day trial can be downloaded for free. Xiant Filer was 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 Outlook inboxes.

"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 instantly makes anyone a more efficient user of e-mail. It integrates seamlessly into Outlook and starts making filing recommendations immediately after installation. There is no need to train Xiant Filer, create complicated rules or to change the way you work.

Xiant Filer 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.

Xiant is dedicated to producing tools that make time at the computer as productive as possible. According to Purcell, there are already more tools under development to help computer users be more productive, organized, and better connected with their stuff.

The beta version of Xiant Filer is available at www.Xiant.com.

    For more information:
    David Postman
    davidp@xiant.com
    206-342-2370
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