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MS Zone Users Must Use Passport Accounts
pathos writes: "CNet reports in this article that Microsoft, in its continued obsession to get everyone and his/her mother to be a registered Passport user, forced all of it's MS Zone gaming site users (including players of 'Asheron's Call') to open accounts in Passport in order to keep using the service... too bad that a bug with their .NET deployment kept many users not being able to access the service..." Of course, if you run the hotel, you get to say who uses the pool ...
So when the XBox's online program comes out in 6 months, will the users have to do the same thing? I would assume so. Which is one of the reasons I will never get the XBox and why I shake my head at everyone that did. Tsk, tsk, tsk kids.
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seriously. they (and other large companies) bought the government that they wanted, and now are proceeding with their agenda.
The difference between Theory and Practice is greater in Practice than in Theory.
It's already happening.. Install MS-Money 2002. Need a passport account to access your online bank statements. It even requests a login to use the software locally!
OH my god they want all of the servers they own to use THEIR auth system! Heaven forbid they should want to put their own product on their FREE servers along with the services you pay for. Stop the presses a company is using its own product! I am not a MS zealot but you know this is just going to far, I mean really how does this matter and why does it cause such an uproar? If you don't want to use Passport don't use the Zone or hotmail or anything else. Its not like that many peoples jobs would require them to use these services, unlike windows, so here is a great chance to vote the only way you can... Simply don't use them.
There is water in the Microsoft pool? I thought it was full of pee and other excrement anyway?!
Between Major League Baseball and Microsoft, I have lost what little faith that I had in the Government's interest in the people's well-being.
the deacon...that's all you need to know for now
I only suppose these games are quite possiblely more popular for the Americains than they are with we French. I have not met any game subscribers of this "Asheron's Call" in all the computer-knowing people I've met in my system administrator job, but I suspect that would be different if I worked in an Americain companie.
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Chloë
Everybody always likes to jump down Microsoft's throat every time they try and breathe. But please, stop for a second and get a grip on reality.
Keeping up with the usernames and passwords for every account I have is a complete nightmare. I have hundreds of them, I can't remember them all, its nuts. Passport solves that problem by giving me one password to go along with my email address (that's my normal email address, not a Hotmail address).
Now everybody seems to have plenty downsides to this convienence, most of which are uninformed rubbish (a site using passport doesn't suddenly get all my information, they only get the information I want them to have for instance) - some of it important (if I break the terms of use, I get cut off all sites). But does anybody have a better method of solving the multiple account problem?
Sun are going to have all the same issues with theirs, so is anybody else trying to do the same thing. They're all going to be the target of every script kiddie under the sun, they're all going to have terms of use that can be broken and you use access to them all, they'll all have the problem of being hacked and the hacker getting your information for all sites. Other companies won't be invulnerable to these problems just because they aren't Microsoft. And don't think that Microsoft aren't going to get all the best security they can on these things either, they're not THAT dumb (not when they're business really depends on it that much).
So how do you propose these problems are solved?