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| Time: 10:41 EST/15:41 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Microsoft is getting ready to provide an early peek at new Windows software that aims to help consumers deal with the plethora of Internet logins. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant plans to release a technical preview of the software, code-named InfoCard, by the end of May, Microsoft said. It will also include other technologies designed to make using digital identities easier and safer, Microsoft's senior executive in charge of security, Mike Nash, said Tuesday. The release is for software developers, who will be asked to give Microsoft feedback on the technology, Nash said during his monthly security Webcast. In addition to InfoCard, Microsoft is also planning preview releases of technologies that it is pitching to enable the various identity systems used on the Internet to work together, he said. | ||
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| #1 By 7760 (12.155.143.50) at 5/18/2005 3:46:26 PM |
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This is a good article that does well in explaining how InfoCard works and how it'll affect e-commerce.
For those not interested in reading all of the article, InfoCard will partly consist of software on your computer that holds your payment information, login names, passwords and perhaps other information. If you were to pull up Amazon, for example, InfoCard would log you in based on the username and password that it stores on your computer. When you're ready to make your purchase, InfoCard will ask you how you want to pay and you may select your Capital One Visa card. Then, InfoCard will apparently connect to Capital One (in this case) and arrange for payment to Amazon, thus never requiring the web store to know your credit card information. It sounds to me like a big improvement over Passport and something that may make e-commerce a lot easier and safer, as long as it gets wide support. This post was edited by Osprey on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 15:49. |
| #2 By 2459 (69.22.124.228) at 5/18/2005 7:29:36 PM |
| #1, it's actually the complete opposite of that. It's "all your passwords (and any other information) are belong to you". The user is in direct control of what, when, and how much information is shared, and the notion of identity is standardized and federated. Users and service providers can use whatever software/platform they want and that software can have its own native notion of identity. As long as it can transform native identity to standard identity, it can be used to interoperate with other standard identity systems. |
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