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Bill Gates and Craig Mundie discussed Microsoft's progress towards creating a Trustworthy Computing environment.

Key points included the need to go beyond just securing the perimeter of a network, and the relative weakness of passwords.

"Passwords are not only weak, they have a huge problem in that if you get more and more of them, the worse it is," pointed out Gates.

Microsoft also announced that its CardSpace feature (which helps users manage their digital identities) will support the OpenID 2.0 standard, a decentralised framework for digital identities.

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