On Jan. 23, the company's chairman, Bill Gates, sent a memo to customers describing progress in improving its products since he announced a "trustworthy computing" initiative a year ago.

Some industry executives say the Government is partly to blame for focusing its high-performance computing initiative narrowly on high-end machines, ignoring programs that might have been directed toward commercial markets.

Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people, networks, and hardware; as such, a green computing initiative must cover all of these areas as well.

Teleconferencing and telepresence technologies are often implemented in green computing initiatives.

The new program will eventually allow the SETI@home project to join forces with other distributed computing initiatives so volunteers can take part in multiple projects instead of just one.

Released in 2007, Power Save provides PC power management to aid in green computing initiatives and to help reduce power expenses.

Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, a trusted computing initiative begun by Microsoft that was codenamed "Palladium"

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, the one to one computing initiative will be begin.

In an interview several months ago, he noted that the computer security aspects of his company's distributed computing initiative, called .

The goal of the computing initiative is to have a supercomputer capable of performing 100 trillion calculations per second in place by 2004.