Passport to Nowhere

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Posted by michael on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @08:41AM 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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I'd Hate to See.... by ThomasFlip · 2004-03-23 08:51 · Score: 0, Troll

What Microsoft does considers a failure.

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.Net FAILS IT!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 08:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Ahh... what a relief to know that the Passport system has failed and is unlikely to make it as the world leader in single sign-on. To be honest, if anyone has the ability to nail this issue once and for all, it's Apple. Just watch... within the next two years, Apple will have a single sign-on system that works with *nix. This will cause a massive revolution in computing the likes of which we've never seen. Combine that with true centralized management of workstations as provided by OS X Server and you can say bye bye Micro$haft. The future's gonna be great without that dicktater Micr$oft!!!
1. Re:.Net FAILS IT!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 09:08 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  TROLL!!!? WTF???!!! You fucking jizzgobbling moderator. What the fuck was up with that stupid fucking fucked moderation!!? This was NOT a troll. Why don't you pull your head out of your Micro$haft infested asshole and read what I'm saying you cumwad? Jesus Cheezeburgers! Here are some irrefutable facts:
  
  1. Micro$oft has an unfair monopoly and is destroying the field of computing.
  2. Passport was a disaster waiting to happen. Well. it's finally reached the critical point and no one can seriously claim that .Net/Passport is usable to anyone with half a brain.
  3. Apple has the intelligence, the resources and the drive to completely decimate Micro$hit with their own single sign on. They're already killing M$ on the server and portable music player fronts.
  4. It's only a matter of time before M$ is bombed into irrellevance.
  
  Get a fucking clue you shiteating moderators. Don't waste your points by modding things you don't agree with even though they might be true. Instead moderate up posts you agree with. And I seriously advise you to reconsider your flawed position that the above was a troll. Instead you should moderate that post as well as this one, up high enough for people to make their own minds. Prevent /. from becoming an echo chamber for mindless droids who think that Windows and Microsoft might suck, but are still OK to use. Apple and Linux all the way baby!!!! Fuck off to all you idiots out there using Windows and supporting the beast that is Micro$osft (cock).
Problems? by Atzanteol · 2004-03-23 09:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."

They also had problems with Passport.

Tiddy-boom!

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