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Friday, June 28, 2002Fast Company: What's the Matter With Microsoft? "A more conservative gauge of Passport's acceptance comes from Gartner's Litan. She counts 14 million active Passport accounts these days, up from 7 million last fall. By "brute force," she says, Microsoft has been able to double its Passport user base in less than a year. Yet it hasn't been able to convince consumers that they really are better off for it. In her latest survey, Litan found that just 8% of Passport users said that they signed up for the service primarily because it let them avoid reentering credit-card data. All of 2% said that they signed up for Passport primarily because it eliminates the need to have multiple IDs and passwords. "Is this really the killer app?" she asks wryly. If Microsoft hasn't yet won our loyalty, do people want someone else to manage their online identities? When Litan asks consumers that question, she finds that banks get the highest endorsement, with support from 47% of the public. In contrast, Microsoft gets a mere 12% of the vote. Yet that's still ahead of the ratings for AOL, Yahoo, and telephone-service providers, all of which are at 6% or less."
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tweney.com: Broken trust. "The problem is that Palladium requires users to place a huge amount of trust in Microsoft. You don't get to decide what runs on your computer -- Microsoft does. You can't even open files unless you've been authorized by Microsoft, or by a third party. And that puts a huge amount of power into the hands of these corporations." [scripting.com] Posted to identity, services @ 10:44:34 PM ( comments)
Microsoft's Federated Security and Identity Roadmap. "By the turn of the century, the question arose of how to get all the computers connected to the Internet to talk to one another. The industry looked to what made the Web successful. This new model, known as XML Web services, focuses on getting heterogeneous systems within and between businesses to talk to one another, regardless of the underlying operating system, language, or programming model. It accepted that these systems were written in different languages, with different programming models. But it was based on the notion that some simple technology standards would be able to bridge that gap." Posted to identity, services @ 10:42:15 PM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:28:49 PM
