Imagine this: With a single password typed only once, a businessman from Detroit gets real-time updates to his calendar, e-mail account, instant messenger, travel schedule and bank statement, accessible from any computer, handheld device or cellular phone, whether he is in Tokyo, London or a plane 10,000 feet over the North Pole. To provide that kind of service on a wide scale, a company would need to create and maintain a massive international infrastructure of server farms, distributed databases and secure networks updated automatically in real time, without a hitch. Which is exactly what Microsoft plans to do.
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