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Gates Says Microsoft Will Support OpenID

Posted by kdawson on from the who-i-am dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In his RSA conference keynote today, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will support the decentralized OpenID digital identity protocol, in addition to WS-* and CardSpace (transcribed notes, video). From its roots in LID, i-names, and Sxip, the first major deployment in LiveJournal, and now with support from Techorati, Magnolia, Symantec, a suspected mass-deployment by AOL, and a number of startups — using URLs as digital identities has caught hold."

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  1. OpenID is Not Secure, Not Useful by smack.addict · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course Microsoft would buy into OpenID, its the Swiss cheese of identity management. It neither solves an actual identity management that the world has nor is it in any way a secure protocol for authenticating users against a single identity.