Twenty years ago…
“Bill Gates went to great lengths to emphasis the importance of smart cards to the 60,000 attendees of NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas.
Smart cards closely tied to PKI deployment in the corporate environment but, as a recent report by The Yankee Group points out, vendors and systems integrators have not got their acts together so far as PKI is concerned: the survey of 30 corporations found inadequate support and professional services.”
“Bill Gates Campaigns For Stronger ID” from Card Technology: p.26-30 (2000).