Re: [DotGNU](slashdot) Microsoft dumps hailstorm ?

[Barry Fitzgerald]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matthew C. Tedder wrote:

> How can Passport die?  It virtually forces everyone who buys one of
> the newer Microsoft products to sign up.  If no one else uses it then
> it will still be there and Microsoft's products alone would have a
> single sign-on.  With this, they will outcompete opponants and
> thus force others to adopt it also.  The perceived implications of press
> releases mean nothing in the face of brazen facts to the contrary.
>


Perhaps, that's why I'm going for independant confirmation.  However,
it's always been my impression that they'd have the market clout to make
the whole thing sort of fly on it's own as a package.  I think that they
assumed that as well.  Perhaps that's not quite the case.

It's one thing to make everyone sign up for something - it's another to
make everyone else use it to do authentication.  Is there a tendancy?
Sure - I thought that they would have improved passport and tried to bring
more on.  Appearently, if this article is to be believed, that did not
exactly happen.

        -Barry