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Microsoft Loses Passport
nikkoslack copies and pastes: "Microsoft is abandoning one of its most controversial attempts to dominate the Internet after rival companies banded together to oppose it and consumers failed to embrace it. The Redmond software company said Wednesday it would stop trying to persuade Web sites to use its Passport service, which stores consumers' credit-card and other information as Internet users surf from place to place."
Wow, it's looking bad for MS. Firefox, IE exploits, linux sneaking up on them, and their attempt to be big brother now fails too. I'll be sure to toss a rose on the casket when the giant dies off for sure, albeit a black rose.
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." -Mahatma Gandhi
These are (oddly enough) the same stumbling blocks that continue to stump them with all product releases
/. the fact that passport was abandoned means nothing. every successful company makes forays into new territory and fails some of the time.
compared to what? MS is the most successful software company ever, period. if you somehow think that MS is faltering, or losing market share, or doesn't know what's going on in any way you need to read something other than
all of this BS about FF being poised to overtake IE is an example. you think MS was taken by surprise? MS could easily implement everything that FF does and has. FF is nothing to them. the vast majority of internet users don't even understand that there are different browsers.