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eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In

Posted by samzenpus on from the verify-this dept.

fihzy writes "eBay have announced they will retire Microsoft Passport Sign-In and .NET alerts. The Microsoft Passport Directory of Sites has been discontinued, too. Is Microsoft's Single Sign-On vision edging towards oblivion?"

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  1. Re:FYI by tourettes · · Score: 5, Informative

    That should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET_Passpo rt

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    tourettes
  2. It never was. by Fortran+IV · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft's Passport sign-on was never a single-entry system, even within Microsoft's sites. Not long ago they started requiring a Passport account to post to the MS support newsgroups, so I reactivated an old Hotmail account. Surprise! Logging on to Passport thru their newsgroups did not get me into Hotmail; I had to enter the Passport account and password individually for each system, whether I entered them sequentially or simultaneously thru two browser windows.

    As usual, Microsoft paid as little attention to their proposed standard systems as the rest of the industry. (Remember, Windows Notepad didn't get the Ctrl-O and Ctrl-S shortcuts until Windows 2000, even though other MS programs had them in Windows 3.x.)

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    I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
  3. Some don't want a hotmail-account by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think some people are scared away because they believe that you need a hotmail-account to have a Passport. Not everybody want yet another useless, spam-filled webmail address.
    The fact is that you can use your regular email with Passport, but I think alot of people believe these two services to be the same.

    Maybe MS just need to relaunch the service. When it was created, Joe Average didn't have a gazillion different passwords. Things have changed since then.