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Microsoft Loses Passport

Posted by michael on from the apply-at-consulate-for-new-one dept.

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."

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  1. Wrong persuasion method... by Seabass55 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "would stop trying to persuade Web sites"

    Perhaps if they did this mafia style with a hammer and some other blunt objects they would have better sucess

  2. Great, now they will have to stand in line by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...at the embassy to get a new one.

  3. Re:A few years down the line ... by savagedome · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. However I have one question. Why did you take the tinfoil hat off?

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  4. Newsflash! by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Innovation isn't really innovation if no one wants it but you.

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  5. What snapped in my head when I read this by mr.+marbles · · Score: 2, Funny

    To quote Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons "HA-HA!"

  6. Oh, what a shock!! by kamesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now how am I going to live my life!! It was doomed to begin with...buggy softwares in the area of payments will never work.

  7. Looses by ahacop@wmuc.umd.edu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uh...shouldn't it be "Microsoft Looses Passport"? ;)

  8. Re:Another take on why it failed... by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try not to anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that.

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  9. Does anyone remember in 1999 when... by runamok1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Microsoft lost Passport.com? As in they let the domain name expire?
    The Link on Cnet.

    An excerpt:
    A Linux user is taking credit for restoring service to Microsoft's Hotmail free email service, saying he paid a delinquent domain name registration fee that blocked access to some users over much of the Christmas weekend.
    and
    The lapse, which was first reported on the Internet news service Slashdot.org, was apparently caused when Microsoft's registration for the Passport.com domain name expired sometime Dec. 24, Chaney said. The Passport.com site verifies user identification and passwords for access to Hotmail and about 25 other services, according to Chaney.
    I just remembered this made me laugh when it happened.