Microsoft fights real viruses using it's spam fighting experience

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Microsoft is working with the Centre for the Aids Program of Research in South Africa and the Ragon Institute to test the HIV vaccine. The testing generates tons of data and that's where Microsoft comes in.

Using PhyloD, a computational biology tool developed by Microsoft, Microsoft Research's Daivd Heckerman and Jonathan Carlson are analyzing in hours amounts of data that would have taken years to sift through without Microsoft's help. Their efforts are already paying off, too; the team has already discovered six times as many possible attack points on the HIV virus than had been identified before.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...am-saves-lives

An interesting read for a "money hungry" corporation. Looks like you're saving lives by buying Windows.