Sept. 20 — Microsoft Corp. is modifying plans for its Passport service, inviting rivals and other companies to create a common way to use a single user name and password at sites across the Internet.
THE SOFTWARE COMPANY’S plan is designed to meet potential objections from users and partners, some of whom have raised privacy concerns about Microsoft or any other organization creating one vast repository of customer information.
Passport, a critical part of Microsoft’s Internet strategy, was developed to allow users to be able to log on just once and get access to multiple Microsoft Web sites and those of other companies that sign up for its service. It already claims some 165 million separate accounts, and more are expected to be created as the new Windows XP operating system prompts users to sign up.
Under the new strategy, to be formally announced Thursday, Microsoft plans to base the next version of Passport on a technology called Kerberos and encourage other companies to do the same. By using compatible technology, Microsoft officials say, other Web sites or rivals such as AOL Time Warner Inc. could set up Passport-like services of their own that work together like networks of bank automated-teller machines. A user might store their password with a service run by AOL, for example, and get access to Microsoft’s sites, or vice versa.
News source: msnbc.com
THE SOFTWARE COMPANY’S plan is designed to meet potential objections from users and partners, some of whom have raised privacy concerns about Microsoft or any other organization creating one vast repository of customer information.
Passport, a critical part of Microsoft’s Internet strategy, was developed to allow users to be able to log on just once and get access to multiple Microsoft Web sites and those of other companies that sign up for its service. It already claims some 165 million separate accounts, and more are expected to be created as the new Windows XP operating system prompts users to sign up.
Under the new strategy, to be formally announced Thursday, Microsoft plans to base the next version of Passport on a technology called Kerberos and encourage other companies to do the same. By using compatible technology, Microsoft officials say, other Web sites or rivals such as AOL Time Warner Inc. could set up Passport-like services of their own that work together like networks of bank automated-teller machines. A user might store their password with a service run by AOL, for example, and get access to Microsoft’s sites, or vice versa.
News source: msnbc.com
In the UK and several places in the US, copies of Microsoft Flight simulator where taken of the shelves. The theory being that the terrorists could have used the program to train for their mission. Also, the new version of the game has been delayed slightly as the World Trade Centers were being removed. Many other games were pulled such as Spider Man. Also, many movies were pulled.
In other MS news, the case between MS and the US Justice Department has been delayed a week. This will further hinder any attempt to stop the shipping of Windows XP.
The president of Akamai was killed in one of the planes that hit the WTC. Akamai is involved with distribution of images and files all over the web. They are the Connexion of images and more.
Yet, I do not think these will be the real effects on the industry. I believe that consumer confidence is going to drop to the bottom. The market for computer games, new processors, and better operating systems will not exist. This will create a massive slowdown as to the future of computer development. This will mean all our news days in a few months will look like the last week’s stories.
As citizens of the world, we must continue to purchase as we have previously. This is the only way that we will salvage the tech industry and many others. Current war does not have a massive effect on the productivity of companies as it did in the past. I do not expect war to have a positive or negative effect on the economy.
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