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Why I trust Microsoft more than my bank | |
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| Time: 04:55 EST/09:55 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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A new Gartner study comes to the not-so-staggering conclusion that Mr. and Mrs. America don't like online authentication services such as Microsoft's Passport and AOL's Screen Name service. The reason: They don't trust the two companies to keep their personal information safe. Given how the two companies are forcing their respective user name and authentication schemes down people's throats, it doesn't surprise me that consumers are choking on them. And given that consumers have a hard enough time trusting the Internet as a whole, I can certainly understand why they're unwilling to trust AOL and Microsoft. What I don't understand is why these same consumers are so willing to trust their banks and other financial services companies with the same personal information. According to Gartner, 47 percent of consumers surveyed said they would trust banks to handle e-wallet services safely. Only 12 percent said the same thing about Microsoft. You can read the rest of this article over here. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 4/29/2002 10:58:12 AM |
| #2 - You've never used XP I take it. |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 4/29/2002 12:12:51 PM |
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#7 - Actually to make matters worse, the Passport integration in Money 2002 doesn't even work. When I tried to use it, it kept telling me it failed to connect.
And yes, it was a bloody pain in the butt to get Money to work without the Passport. I got it to work, but I had to jump through some hoops. |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 4/29/2002 1:52:50 PM |
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#9/10 - So? I see no relevance to this complaint.
Try to submit an error to any company and they will require you to create an account and logon. |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 4/29/2002 5:52:29 PM |
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binhex - Weird, I see no mention anywhere on the Microsoft site that you cut your finger off. Why would you make such an analogy when it isn't even close to the truth?
"People are stating they don't like Passport because they don't trust it, because it has had security issues, because whatever... and that's valid. " Ahh, but you need to qualify it. Does Passport have potential problems? Yes. But does the way we do things before have problems? Yes, even moreso than Passport. So this dispute is actually rather assinine, because it is screaming "NO!!!" without really offering an alternative which is better. You certainly can't argue that things should stay as they are, so what should we do? |
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