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Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ready-for-the-masses dept.

randommsdev writes "Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Live ID Web Authentication. This means that WLID (formerly known as Passport) is now opened to third party websites to use as their authentication system. Any Windows Live user can potentially log in to a website that implements Web Authentication. Interestingly sample implementations are available in the Ruby, Python, Perl, and PHP open source languages amongst others — tested on openSUSE 10.2 but expected to work on any platform that supports these languages. More details are available in the SDK documentation."

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  1. ATTN: Top-posting whores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Put your comments below this one.

    1. Re:ATTN: Top-posting whores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      What is top posting?

      Thanks!

      Put your comments below this one.
    2. Re:ATTN: Top-posting whores by cbelle13013 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Why would anyone do that?

      Top posting is when people intentially respond to a post that is close to the top in order to achieve higher visibility.

      Here, maybe. Go back a few years and you'll find that "top-posting" was (and is) used to describe someone who, in a newsgroup post, puts his or her own answer above the quote it responds to, making the discussion hard to follow by the quotes in one single post.
  2. w00t! by doxology · · Score: 4, Funny

    urls gone wlid!

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    sigfault. core dumped.
  3. Now we can all use Windows security - via the web! by greenguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no possible way anything could go wrong with this plan.

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    What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
  4. System Requirements by iovar · · Score: 5, Funny
    From: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=8BA187E5-3630-437D-AFDF-59AB699A483D&displa ylang=en

    Supported Operating Systems: Linux; Windows Vista; Windows XP
    How's the wheather in hell these days?
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    http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org
  5. Re:How long by hawkinspeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I've gone to a bank, they just wear suits and business clothes. Why is the wardrobe department involved with this? I'm confused.

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    You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
  6. Re:How long by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are right.
    Just sign into http://paypalhardware.com/ with your credentials and they will send one out to you :)

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  7. Re:How long by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, ok, I guess everything is alright then. They have probably thought of all the problems, and everything will be fine, thanks macbort. How foolish of us to question something like this! Moron.