/. had commenter express an opinion I've heard around microsoft a bunch of times. It's pretty simple, stop copying, start leapfrogging.
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So today, Microsoft announced federated passport. Passport is an authentication system. This means that a chunk of the passport name space can be administrated and controled by third party and the basic technology is kerberos. However everyone and thier brother is all worried about the kerberos "extensions" that MS made in the domain system windows uses. The Register's article got closer to the point about authentication versus authorization but missed the point. Passport is authentication not authorization, the AD extensions don't matter and don't play a role in this space.

Microsoft is trying to build a wordwide authentication system. It's a noble and cool goal. What gets done with such a system is a different matter I guess.
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