E-mail has become a publishing medium for market researchers, spammers, exiled political dissidents and people selling ostrich jerky. And now, it will be used by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives will periodically issue newsletters on the company's views about the role of technology and public policy, according to the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. The first volume of the newsletter, about Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, went out Wednesday and was penned by Gates. The four-page e-mail gives an overview of the initiative and provides tips on how companies can make their computing environments more secure.
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