<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks Mike,<br><br>This is great. I also saw an advance copy of Nico Popp's blog article. And I've been in touch with Esther Dyson this morning as well.<br><br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com><br>To: "board@openid.net" <board@openid.net><br>Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2008 6:43:16 AM<br>Subject: [OpenID board] My blog post supporting today's news<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">FYI, my personal blog post supporting today's announcement
is now up at <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://self-issued.info/?p=57" title="blocked::http://self-issued.info/?p=57">http://self-issued.info/?p=57</a>.</span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Microsoft's post is also live at <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-07MSOpenIDPR.mspx" title="blocked::http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-07MSOpenIDPR.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-07MSOpenIDPR.mspx</a>.</span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> Should
be a fun day!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> --
Mike</span></font></p>
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