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- An InfoCard selector for OS X
- The Bandit Project sponsored by Novell has released DigitalMe for the Mac. DigitalMe is the Novell brand for their Infocard selectors that are compatible with Microsoft's CardSpace. I installed the OS X DigitalMe selector and the Firefox plugin (the browser is an intermediary in process of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Apple Mac OS X, DigitalMe, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Microsoft's Identity Wedge
- You might think of this as the other shoe dropping regarding Microsofts deal with Novell. (Picture from the KMUTT School of Architecture and Design in Thailand, which does usability testing.)While attention has been focused on the cross-licensing, which implies Microsoft holds patents on Linux, its clear now that Novell will...
- Tags: Novell Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- An InfoCard selector for OS X and Linux
- An InfoCard selector for OS X and LinuxWhat's moreOf course, you can only use it if you got your system from Novell or Microsoft may sue you.So Microsoft will start suing individuals?That's where the "Wow" starts.Wow!, that will improve their image.Wow!, that will increase their revenue.Wow!, that will stop piracy...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Wow!, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- An InfoCard selector for OS X and Linux
- Dale Olds reports on his blog that Novell presented an Open Source Identity Selector OSIS on OS X and Linux that supports the same InfoCards as Windows CardSpace today at Brainshare. Pat Felsted has a screenshot of the OSIS. Dale describes a demo done by Baber...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, selector, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Open Source Identity Selector
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Can open source lead to better identity?
- Folks have been working toward better online identity for over a decade. It was assumed there was a lot of money in it. (Swayspace, where this image lives, works on developing corporate identities, which is a profitable business.)Well, there is a lot of money to be saved in better identity....
- Tags: Applications, Development, business models, General, identity
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support
- A new plug-in providing Firefox support for Microsofts CardSpace digital-identity framework is now available for public download. Solution architect Kevin Miller, who played an instrumental role in developing the technology, announced the availability of his Firefox add-on for Windows via his blog. Why is Firefox support important? Until...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Meeting of the minds: Microsoft and Mozilla
- So what ever happened to the brave Mozilla delegation that accepted Microsoft’s invitation earlier this summer to travel to the belly of the Borg? Was it mission accomplished, as far as insuring Vista compatibility for Firefox?Looks like the Mozilla folks made it out alive, according to a blog post from...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Vukicevic, UAC, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- A sneak preview of .NET 3.0
- David Chappell, who literally wrote the book on "Understanding .NET," has just put together a paper with lots of details on Microsoft's upcoming .NET Framework 3.0. .NET 3.0 provides common foundations for workflow, Web services messaging, and presentation layer. Until earlier this summer, the...
- Tags: Windows Presentation, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Blog posts 2006-08-02
- OSIS links Internet identity systems
- David Berlind's not the only member of the Between the Lines team at the ID Mashup this week. I've been here as well, watching the identity happenings. The first two days were traditional conference style, but the third day of the workshop was done open...
- Tags: OSIS
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's future
- CNET's Martin LaMonica wrote an article yesterday about how Microsoft's Live online services "don't end at Windows Live ID will be a central part of Microsoft's strategic shift towards Live Services and integrated desktop/Web apps the Web browser", but "extend deep into Windows". This is based on the recent release...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Microsoft pretties Office for business apps
- Microsoft pretties Office for business appsTime to spank MS...As a developer I have looked at developer tools for Office and at best it's confusing, at worst it's a disaster.As most know, Visual Basic is dead or is dying. Of course the problem is there are millions of legacy machines...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft development tools, Dot Net, dot-Net, Microsoft Corp., developer, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-06-12
- The many players at IIW
- The many players at IIWWHY are there so many different ones?The usual? Vendors trying to control/own the spec?We need an "ethernet" implementation.Higgins is not another identity systemHiggins is an extensible framework its some code not a new protocol. It's extended by "plug-ins" that adapt it to particular identity systems and...
- Tags: Higgins, IIW, identity system
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
- RSA: Microsoft to shelve token support in Vista
- RSA: Microsoft to shelve token support in VistaFootnote[i]Vista will finally come out in early 2008. It will consist of XP SP2 in a fancy new box.[/i]Of course, by then XP SP3 will have come out on schedule. This will enable Microsoft to issue MSVista SP1 immediately. Since corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- Asking the right questions about identity
- We started the Internet Identity Workshop this afternoon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The first day was intended to be tutorial. We expected 50 people, counted 80 yesterday, and ended up with over 100 who came this afternoon. The additional participation was great...
- Tags: centric identity, identity
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- DRM to join death and taxes. Will Sun's DReaM spare us the nightmare?
- While I was on vacation last week, I noticed that Cory Doctorow issued a scathing review of Sun's Project DReaM in response to my podcast interview of Sun Labs director of engineering Tom Jacobs who heads up development of DReaM. Under the auspices of an organization called the Open...
- Tags: Dream, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Putting vendors on the map
- Tuesday, I laid out our vision of the digital identity industry map. To expand on that, I'm going to place some vendors on that map -- in effect, mapping their companies (or in the case of big technology companies, their products) to the different categories. The identity universe is composed...
- Tags: Eric Norlin, IBM Corp., identity, identity industry, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., RSA Security Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Internet Identity Workshop
- Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be hosting the second Internet Identity Workshop IIW in Mountain View, CA on May 1-3, 2006. IIW deals with what people are calling user-centric identity and Identity 2.0. LID, OpenID, YADIS, i-names, SXIP, Microsoft's InfoCard system, and the recently announced...
- Tags: Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Identity 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Higgins and Vendor Sports
- A few days ago IBM, Novell, and Harvard's Berkman Center announced the Higgins Project. Higgins is a "user-centric identity" system that will be open source and managed by the Eclipse Foundation. When we held the Internet Identity Workshop last October, Paul Trevithick spoke about Higgins (listen...
- Tags: Higgins, Higgins Project
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Who do you trust more than Microsoft?
- Microsoft's project Hailstorm promised single sign-on and selective sharing of personal information stored at a central location. However it withered on the vine because a) central information stores are juicy targets for thieves, and b) nobody quite trusted Microsoft to keep their deepest secrets safe from prying eyes. Today...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
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