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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider
Angus Logan's Blog: ANNOUNCEMENT: Live ID OpenID Provider technical preview + see the screencast
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews: Microsoft launches CTP for OpenID support in Windows Live ID
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.: Microsoft Releases a Technology Preview of OpenID for Windows Live
Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... The second most interesting announcement out of PDC this morning is that Windows
Live ID is becoming an OpenID Provider. The information below explains how to
try it out and give feedback to the team responsible. ...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Live ID OpenID Provider technical preview + see the screencast
Angus Logan's Blog —
Over at dev.live.com the team just announced developers are able to test/preview the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider in our test environment. A couple of nights ago I cut a really quick and dirty screencast of the experience – check it out below. Windows Live ID OpenID Provider Screencast from Angus Logan on Vimeo.
Microsoft launches CTP for OpenID support in Windows Live ID
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
Yet another PDC announcement, and this one is from the Windows Live ID team. They’ve just opened up a Live ID test bed for those developers who want to start playing with Open ID integration. See for yourself. There’s more info over on the WL Dev blog, or there’s a 3 minute webcast showing what this announcement means for users. Note this is for testing only, and isn’t a full release of OpenID support in Windows Live ID. ...
Microsoft Releases a Technology Preview of OpenID for Windows Live
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... This morning at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, the Windows Live ID team announced that Windows Live ID will support OpenID 2.0 with a Community Technology Preview today and production support sometime next year. ...
Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID
ReadWriteWeb —
... But all of that could be changing with today's announcement from Microsoft. Anointing OpenID "the de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication," Microsoft has moved to give millions of Windows Live users access to any OpenID-enabled site on the Web by ensuring every Windows Live ID will become an OpenID. ...
PDC 2008: Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider
Webmonkey —
... Live ID at OpenID sites just yet, but the service is available for public testing right now. The official release will be in 2009.
Kim Cameron made the announcement at the PDC developer event here in Los Angeles. Cameron is the Chief Architect of Identity in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division. He also independently runs a blog on internet identity.
So, why support OpenID? And why now? Microsoft’s Jorgen Thelin offers this explanation on the Live.com developer’s blog:
All Windows Live product teams are committed to ...
Microsoft Jumps on OpenID Bandwagon
SitePoint —
... Now is OpenID finally mainstream? Microsoft announced today that it will be enabling all Windows Live ID accounts — of which there are some 420 million plus users — with the ability to log in to OpenID web sites. Microsoft announced the availability of a Community Technology Preview (their word for beta) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider. ...
Windows Live supports OpenID; Microsoft
D' Technology Weblog —
... But all of that could be changing with Microsoft announcement. Anointing OpenID “the de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication,” Microsoft has moved to give millions of Windows Live users access to any OpenID-enabled site on the Web by ensuring every Windows Live ID will become an OpenID. ...
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VentureBeat —
... Windows Live ID supports OpenID — Now you can use your Live ID to set up an OpenID alias to access sites like social network Plaxo. Microsoft says OpenID is “an emerging, de facto standard web protocol for user authentication.” ...
Windows Live ID agora também é um provedor OpenID
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE —
A Microsoft anunciou ainda ontem que todos os IDs do Windows Live se tornarão OpenIDs, em uma oficialização do seu serviço como um provedor oficial de identidade universal na internet. A novidade poderá acelerar a adoção da iniciativa que, ainda que bem recebida por grandes nomes tecnológicos, tem se expandido bem devagar.
A implementação do Windows Live ainda está em fase de testes, mas quem quiser participar, já pode se registrar. Depois, é só ir aqui e configurar um atalho de teste OpenID. Uma vez feito ...
Why Google Forked OpenID and Other Stories
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... as Yahoo's, OpenID experts have also criticized Yahoo's implementation.
Specifically Sam Ruby in his post OpenId
Minus Id Equals Wide Open writes
Martin Atkins:
Yahoo!'s OP and now it seems Microsoft’s OP both ignore the value of openid.identity
provided to them, and just return an assertion for whatever user’s logged in.
I may ultimately need to black-list such ids.
Looking at live.com
instructions:
At any Web site that supports OpenID ...
Can you MakeOfficeBetter.com ?
Geek In Disguise —
... It was also something of a surprise (a good one) to see authorisation for the site is via OpenID – using any one of the providers below. Sort of weird to see a Microsoft site that doesn’t have Live ID support for authentication. (note – we’re committed to supporting OpenID with Live) ...
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