Agreed.
The pre-pubescent, ill-informed posts by the regular cowards towards MS is clearly proof that they are as blind to these technologies as AOL users are to the internet. But we're all used to mis-information, just use your own mental filter.
I recently implemented Passport into a site and found that the authentication system used is very limited. The object used to call information from the Passport servers is restricted to the information provided by the user when they first register with Passport. You can associate information within your own user information db, but the only real common element is the PUID - a 64bit unique ID. That's it. No credit cards, no addresses, nothing!
For a brief description of what is stored, see
http://memberservices.passport.com/HELP/MSRV_HELP_ profile.asp. Of course, if you want to more details, you have to register:(
MS' legal team has obviously done their homework (as they always do), and while this seems like a horror and shock to the lowly users of the internet, it just shows what kind of hype can be generated by actually reading EULAs, contracts, and disclaimers.
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Agreed.
The pre-pubescent, ill-informed posts by the regular cowards towards MS is clearly proof that they are as blind to these technologies as AOL users are to the internet. But we're all used to mis-information, just use your own mental filter.
I recently implemented Passport into a site and found that the authentication system used is very limited. The object used to call information from the Passport servers is restricted to the information provided by the user when they first register with Passport. You can associate information within your own user information db, but the only real common element is the PUID - a 64bit unique ID. That's it. No credit cards, no addresses, nothing!_ profile.asp. Of course, if you want to more details, you have to register :(
For a brief description of what is stored, see http://memberservices.passport.com/HELP/MSRV_HELP
MS' legal team has obviously done their homework (as they always do), and while this seems like a horror and shock to the lowly users of the internet, it just shows what kind of hype can be generated by actually reading EULAs, contracts, and disclaimers.