[JDEV] MS opens up Passport and HailStorm

[Julian Missig]

Uh, not really. That's for existing open standards. There's not really 
an existing open standard here that Microsoft is embracing. We're 
witnessing Microsoft creating *their own standard* and attempting to 
make it the defacto standard.

Julian
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Jonathan Siegle wrote:

> Step #1: Embrace.
> 
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Adam Theo wrote:
> 
> 
>>wow... MS is on the warpath...
>>
>>they're supposedly opening up their .Net auth system to allow other,
>>non-Passport, auth systems, such as from AOL or Yahoo... they would be
>>100% compatible with each other, so Yahoo Auth users could use Yahoo to
>>access Hotmail and other MSN services...
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813501,00.html