Great news today from the Windows Live Dev site where they announced that pretty soon you'll be able to use your Windows Live ID (MSN Messenger, Hotmail, Xbox Live etc.) to authenticate with Open ID 2.0 sites."The Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP) enables anyone with a Windows Live ID account to set up an OpenID alias and to use that alias for identification at an increasing number of OpenID 2.0 relying party sites". JOY!
For those unsure of what Open ID is Wikipedia says, "OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site."
I already have an Open ID set up with another provider but if the Windows Live community of users has easy access to such a wonderful technology things might start heating up. Aren't you sick of trying to remember usernames and passwords for heaps of sites?
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