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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...
So we have FolderShare, we have Office Live Workspace, we have SkyDrive and we have MSN Sharing Folders. We have Windows Home Server offering RDP and classic remote desktop if you have a routable IP address. We have CardSpace and LiveID. We have Vista’s Sync Center. We have Vista Photo Gallery and MSN Photo Gallery. All of this and now we have Mesh, adding more duplication to the mix. Whatever happened to the ethos of Office where everything worked together? Now we have siloed programs and development teams who spend god knows how much duplicating functionality that other teams...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm Sex offenders' e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children. In the usual "won’t something think of the children" government attempts to legislate lack of parental supervision on the internet; assuming that an email address is permanent and can never change. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she wanted children to be "free from fear". "We need to patrol the internet to keep predators away from children in the same way as we patrol the real world," she told GMTV. Of course in the...
<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...
Can someone please take Steve Clayton’s geek credentials away please? The Blue Monster is bad enough but this latest post takes the biscuit; if you think anyone in the audience can trip you up on the topic you’re about to speak about, you should be questioning why you’re up there presenting. Wow. Just wow. Maybe it’s easier when you are just talking marketing, but is Steve really saying DPE should cancel the Visual Studio 2008 launch tours? That’s what it sounds like. When giving technical presentations, especially overviews, in such a rapidly evolving landscape knowing everything is next to...