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Passport to Nowhere

Posted by michael on from the where-did-you-want-to-go-yesterday dept.

prostoalex writes "CNET News.com.com talks about less than glamorous acceptance of Microsoft's single sign-on technology, .NET Passport. Being launched as a single sign-on service for online businesses and competing heavily with open Liberty Alliance project, which so far has produced just a large amount of PDF files, .NET Passport is considered a failure (although not by Microsoft). Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."

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  1. Oh? Did you see the story when it was posted? by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I personally think that it's becoming the groupthink/chic thing to do to point out that the Slashdot crowd doesn't like Microsoft.

    I think you're purposely being naive if you don't recognize that there is a decidedly anti-"M$" slant here.

    Personally, I'd say the posting of that story should stand as proof that Slashdot isn't so biased as you seem to indicate.

    Did you even see it? The study indicated that Linux was the most-breached OS. So what does Slashdot do when they post it? Change the headline to read, "Linux Most-Attacked OS?" They change "breached" to "attacked" and add a question mark.

    Then we get an article called "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" because Windows has a userbase there. Never mind that China has its own custom Linux distribution.