Microsoft is serious about security and sees a growing role for smart cards, PKI, and biometrics. It unleashed a 20-city Microsoft Summit tour in April, while its CEO, Steve Ballmer, talked up security and the software giant’s role in it, in an April speech to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and other government officials in Washington. Meanwhile, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made it clear in a six-page e-mail to subscribers at the end of March that “security is as big and important a challenge as any our industry has ever tackled.”
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