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Windows Live ID: A single sign-on and digital wallet service from Microsoft that enables users to quickly log in to Windows Live ID-enabled Web sites and identify themselves. Windows Live ID was...; Full Windows Live ID Definition >>

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Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths: With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of...; Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Apps, Document, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Five new Microsoft downloads available this week: A quick round-up of some of the new test releases and final versions of various Microsoft wares rolled out in the past week:Windows Live ID software development kit. Windows Live ID is Microsoft's single sign-on authentication technology of which Microsoft Passport is a subset. On August 16, Microsoft released version...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-08-17
Xbox Live hacked, accounts stolen: Online gaming forums are buzzing with reports that Xbox Live accounts linked to Microsofts Windows Live ID service are being hijacked by malicious hackers. Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition, raised the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, calling attention to rumors that...; Tags: Game players, Games, Windows Live ID, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Kevin Finisterre, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-20
Identity for the Internet, Windows and Skype - oh my!: Three loosely coupled bits of news floated around yesterday; interesting enough to spark my interest in taking a look at each of them:1. OSIS link Internet identity systems: "OSIS" stands for "Open source identity selector" and is a truly significant development as Phil Windley pointed out. Its server-side work is...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live ID, identity, Microsoft Windows CardSpace; Blog posts 2006-06-22
Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's future: Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's futurePassport by another name?Ok, why is this good but Passport bad?Anybody interested in what the customer wants?I am increasingly amazed at these 'products' emerging that I have no intention of using nor have an interest in. Do any of these companies care to listen...; Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, kind-of, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Internet, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows, operating system; Discussion threads 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
New: Windows Live Account and ID: A new product from the busy Windows Live team is Windows Live Account at account.live.com. The Hive describes it as: "...a new control panel for your Windows Live ID AKA Passport account. Change your settings and get help for your Windows Live ID Account. ...; Tags: Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2006-05-18
Identity Management as a Service: Identity Management as a ServiceWindows LiveIDWe commented on an post from Phil earlier in the year on this very subject http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2005/10/loosely-coupled-reinvents-passport.htmlYour references to Passport are interesting in light of this white paper from Microsoft discussion Passport 2.0 aka Windows LiveID: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/winliveidserv.aspwhich includes the following:Microsoft has published its vision of a...; Tags: identity management, relying party, identity, identity provider, Windows Live ID, Windows Live ID service, metasystem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-04-19

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Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins: The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...; Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-26
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more: I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-25
21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP: Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...; Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched: Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Talent development: Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...; Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing: On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated): Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...; Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available: The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
A Friday Active Directory puzzler: We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...; Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops: Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-25