Microsoft’s hiring slowdown hasn’t translated to a complete hiring freeze. Among the newest of the Red-Pill poppers is Dick Hardt. is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is known for his take on the “Identity 2.0″ concept (and blog of the same name). Identity 2.0, or digital identity,
buy windows 7 activation, is focused on using emerging technologies like OpenID to improve cross-vendor authentication and user security. Hardt’s other claims to fame: He founded ActiveState, an open-source programming language and anti-spam software vendro that was purchased by Sophos in 2003. According to Wikipedia, Hardt also is “credited with the port of the Perl programming language to Windows, which, at the time,
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