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Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the partly-sunny dept.

Dephex Twin writes "According to a NYTimes article: due to lack of 3rd-party support for Microsoft's "Persona" (originally codenamed "Hailstorm"), the company has been forced to dump the project. It seems the companies didn't like having a middleman between them and the consumers. As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief."

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  1. One degree of seperation? by Peyna · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Wasn't .NET supposed to give you 'one degree of seperation' according to all the commercials I saw on TV? Wouldn't that mean no middle man?

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  2. Registration by Johnny+Mnemonic · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Registration for NY Times articles drives me crazy. Call me a Karma Whore, but here's a RFC: NY Times reg.
    • username shall be firstword of 'submitter name'
    • password shall be firstword of 'headline.'

    For example, registration in this case is username 'dephex' and pass 'microsoft'. Story submitters will please register according to these guidelines when they sumbit stories to /., and save us all a lot of hassle.

    Does this violate the DMCA?
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