In January of this year, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates unveiled the company’s initiative on Trustworthy Computing, which was widely described both inside Microsoft and throughout the industry as a major call-to-action for the company. Gates stated that people should expect computing with greater security, availability, and reliability than they currently experience -- and that Microsoft and the industry had to provide this greater level of trustworthiness if computing was to truly become ubiquitous and helpful to everyday life.
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