Johannes Ernst of NetMesh puts flesh on the bones of Microsoft's InfoCard digital ID scheme. If you Google Microsoft's InfoCard, you mostly seem to find people asking "who can tell me more about ...

Passport and passwords are both on the way out, according to Bill Gates, who made his pitch for a new kind of online authentication technology at the RSA Conference 2006 in California today. His ...

You might remember Microsoft's first attempt at addressing this problem, Passport, which Microsoft uses on its own MSDN Web site (and elsewhere), but which never caught on as Microsoft hoped it would.

Microsoft’s Chairman Bill came down from the mountain to San Jose last week, to deliver his wisdom to the assembled masses at RSA Conference 2006. This event used to be called the RSA Security ...

In a company as large as Microsoft, the comings and goings of employees can often be overlooked. But there were two transactions this month – one coming, one going – that ought to be of interest to ...

IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open-source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open-source ...

Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp.'s fledgling InfoCard online identification project has won support from one of the biggest names in the field. VeriSign Inc. showed plans Wednesday to let people ...

Microsoft is to preview a new Identity managment system to software developers by the end of the month, according to reports at news.com. The system will allow users to have a secure method of storing ...

Microsoft released on Monday its first beta versions of three developer technologies that will underlie the development platform for its forthcoming Longhorn Windows update. Included in the Beta 1 ...

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