OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

It was amazing, a revelation really. I’ve said in the past that Bill Gates didn’t really understand the whole “identity thing” but evidently he’s been taking lessons privately. In case you missed it, ...

Microsoft and Google are living up to a promise they made in February by showing signs of OpenID support in its product code. OpenID works identically to the login methods of Google Accounts and ...

The basic premise of the OpenID initiative is that there's no reason to force an Internet user to maintain dozens of identities scattered across different web services. The OpenID Foundation has been ...

With the Vista launch behind him, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer and security patron, were on stage the 16th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco before ...

As anticipated by TechCrunch UK in early January, OpenID is welcoming some big new partners to the club – Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM (TechCrunch UK anticipated all but Microsoft). Google has ...

Over 16 months after first declaring its support for the OpenID authentication platform, Microsoft has finally implemented it for the first time, allowing for OpenID logins on its Health Vault medical ...

Microsoft had previously announced the Windows Live ID, but has now gone one step further by attempting to make it a truly open system which allows third party websites to use it for authentication.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and successor chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie have outlined the company's plans to support emerging open source online identity management standard ...

Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft will begin supporting OpenID. The announcement came during his keynote speech this morning at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Interoperability with OpenID, ...