• Nov112008

    Microsoft = OpenID

    Posted by Gene in Technical, Web Development, Social Web

    openidThis fairly big news, Microsoft is making their Live ID an OpenID provider service. That could be big for OpenID since Microsoft is so big. I personally like using OpenID, it was a bit buggy at first but it seems they’ve worked it all out now.

    Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.

    They go on to say:

    All Windows Live product teams are committed to supporting open standards where such standards are relevant to our work and when they reach a sufficient level of maturity, and the Windows Live ID Team is no exception. We have been tracking the evolution of the OpenID specification, from its birth as just a dream and a vision through its development into a mature, de facto standard with terms that make it viable for us to implement it now.

    Also, with Google having added OpenID to Blogger, they now look poised to roll it out for general Google apps, like Gmail, etc… Neat.

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    1. Posted at 10:06 pm on 11/17/08

      Brian Cline

      Let’s hope by “for us to implement” they really mean “for us to implement in a respectably open and compliant manner” like everyone else.

      Exciting news, though. Perhaps this will speed up adoption by other big names as well.

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