  In this paper I discuss connections between the noncommutative geometry
approach to the standard model on one side, and the internal space coming from
strings on the other. The standard model in noncommutative geometry is
described via the spectral action. I argue that an internal noncommutative
manifold compactified at the renormalization scale, could give rise to the
almost commutative geometry required by the spectral action. I then speculate
how this could arise from the noncommutative geometry given by the vertex
operators of a string theory.
