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

    Thanks!

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  2. 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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  3. 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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