Microsoft philosophy for 20 years has been "information at your fingertips". MSFT is all about pushing control to the edges, and enabling P2P scenarios. Google philosophy is "all the world's information, stored on our servers, and charge a toll to get it back". An edge-based, P2P scenario is superior technically, and the economics are better in the long run (except in the specific case of global metadata, which I explained in the whitepaper 5 years ago). |joshua allen

In 2003, 11,788 Brits were taken to the hospital following accidents while putting on socks, tights or stockings. Eating lunch is more dangerous still: 67,000 people are injured each year in the UK trying to peel the cellophane off a packet of sandwiches or open a ring-pull can. (john thackara, designers and the age of fear)

burt kaliski

ePassports are viewed as a possible foundation for a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). If you project into the future, this statement seems to mean that businesses could come to rely on your ePassport for commercial transactions ...

another rsa guy wonders, why credit cards are still so lame and are not allowing one time code transaction. e-ink would make it possible to change with every transaction the three last digits on the card.

but still the biggest whole are their databases. you don't need a lot to get in there - everyone agrees on that.