Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technology officer and senior vice-president for advanced strategies and policies, gives a speech during the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual meeting 2006 held in Boao, a scenic town in China's southernmost island province of Hainan, on April 22, 2006.

The BFA 2006 meeting, with the theme "Asia Searching for Win-win: New Opportunities of Asia, Driving Growth to the Next Level", opened here on Saturday morning and has attracted some 850 politicians, business leaders and scholars from about 40 countries and regions.

(Xinhua News Agency April 23, 2006)