Live ID
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Live ID
So yesterday Dare announced that Microsoft, via Live ID were becoming an OpenID provider. Big whoop. So why am I so ambivalent? Being an OpenID provider is meaningless for Microsoft unless they start to accept OpenIDs for their services. At the moment be it on Microsoft.com, the Microsoft forums, Channel9, MSDN subscriptions, anything Microsoft web site needs personalisation demands a Live ID. Exposing a Live ID via OpenID simply allows existing "subscribers" to spread the Live ID tentacles into other sites; it does nothing to open up Live's web sites to interoperability with other identity providers; and that...
<rant> One of the problems I have when extolling Information Cards is the severe lack of real world implementations, beyond those Vittorio has had a helping hand in. A common question is where does Microsoft use it themselves? The honest answer is "Nowhere, beyond a pathetic nod at it with Live ID™, using self issued cards to protect the Live ID login page, and only if you’re in Internet Explorer, oh and it’s beta support, and has been for over 6 months". A recent post by an EMEA Architect Evangelist is making me bang my head against the wall. One...