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Microsoft's Geneva Server: Hailstorm done right

 
Hard lessons for Google, Facebook and Microsoft PDC Microsoft's notorious Hailstorm project, announced in 2001 but scrapped before it was launched, sought to make Passport the core of the whole world's web identity. In 2008, major web properties like Google and Facebook are still fighting identity wars.… (link)

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