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The way I handle security in a discussion with a customer is, I make it very pragmatic and I tell them, "You see when you receive an email with restricted access or DRM there are always ways to spread this email or share this email with somebody like taking a picture of your screen and then blog this picture or do some stuff like that. So, 100% security is not something you can really, really find anywhere." But on the other side in the Microsoft Data Centers we have established everything that people may need to have something as secure as we can with finger print reading, with iris reading, etc. etc. And this would cost a lot of money and take a lot of time for a customer in the world to create this for his own data center. We have all this and they can take advantage of this and it's really for them to use it. And on the other side we have ways to talk to our customers on how we build security, like software security inside our data centers, our Windows Azure and BPOS Data Centers because the division of Microsoft that does the data centers is called Global Foundation Services. You can go to www.globalfoundationservices.com, and under the security tab you'll be able to find a white paper explaining how we put in place security in our data centers. Also, there are one or two webcasts that explain all this and you can share this with your customers.