http://www.technomojo.info/2007/02/22/firefox-3-to-support-cardspace/ Aggregating technology news you can use Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.technomojo.info/2007/02/22/firefox-3-to-support-cardspace/#comment-3063 Mary Branscombe Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:14:13 +0000 http://www.technomojo.info/2007/02/22/firefox-3-to-support-cardspace/#comment-3063 That's a slight misnderstanding of the situation. MS is seeking to be part of an identity metasystem in which you can use a variety of identity systems together, using CardSpace where relevant and OpenID where you have no security requirements at all, without having the current mess of multiple user names and passwords. just as you use the same file explorer to view a hard drive, a CD and a memory card because there's a file system abstraction layer. CardSpace is supported in Vista and Ie 7 for XP by MS, and on several other platforms by open source software. That’s a slight misnderstanding of the situation. MS is seeking to be part of an identity metasystem in which you can use a variety of identity systems together, using CardSpace where relevant and OpenID where you have no security requirements at all, without having the current mess of multiple user names and passwords. just as you use the same file explorer to view a hard drive, a CD and a memory card because there’s a file system abstraction layer. CardSpace is supported in Vista and Ie 7 for XP by MS, and on several other platforms by open source software.

]]> http://www.technomojo.info/2007/02/22/firefox-3-to-support-cardspace/#comment-591 Shadowhelm Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:13:39 +0000 http://www.technomojo.info/2007/02/22/firefox-3-to-support-cardspace/#comment-591 It seems to me that the powers that be at Microsoft have gone absolutely bat-shit crazy. They are creating technologies, but not supporting them in their own products. This is just one example. The biggest one I can think of right off the top of my head is the PlaysforSure DRM system. Here they have this system that they have been selling for a couple of years and then they come out with their own .mp3 player which doesn't support it! HUH? What is the strategy there? It seems to me that the powers that be at Microsoft have gone absolutely bat-shit crazy. They are creating technologies, but not supporting them in their own products. This is just one example. The biggest one I can think of right off the top of my head is the PlaysforSure DRM system. Here they have this system that they have been selling for a couple of years and then they come out with their own .mp3 player which doesn’t support it! HUH? What is the strategy there?

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