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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. Embrace, by rrohbeck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    extend, ...
    You know the rest.

    --
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  2. Could someone translate this for me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    English is my first language.

  3. It's not just MS support by blowdart · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a two way thing; OpenID will support CardSpace as an identity selector. This is a "good thing", as it will stop the man in the middle attacks OpenID is very prone to. Of course the OpenID identity providers need to add support, like MEX endpoints and WS-Trust, which are all open specs.

    CardSpace itself doesn't care what's on the identity provider side, they just need to talk the right talk.