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Microsoft takes Passport to Washington
News Microsoft on Wednesday descended on the nation's capital, trying to quell concerns its Passport authentication service poses a threat to consumers' privacy or security. Still, controversy over Passport could hound Microsoft, despite recent changes...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
Microsoft plugs Passport hole
News Microsoft has fixed a security flaw in its Passport online-identity system after the vulnerability was revealed by a Latin American hacker. It's the second time in two months that a security issue has been found in Passport's password recover...
[July 3, 2003, 8:03]
Microsoft increases Passport security
News Microsoft began notifying Passport users on Monday night of changes that would give them more control over their accounts and increased privacy and security. In early August, Microsoft settled with the FTC over privacy problems and potential...
[September 3, 2002, 11:06]
Microsoft alerts Passport users to need for patch
News Microsoft is pressing .Net Passport users to install a patch for some versions of its browser nearly two months after it fixed a security flaw that threatens customers' personal data online. The reason for the 'canvassing' approach is that we feel...
[January 4, 2002, 11:54]
Microsoft aims Passport at credit cards
News Microsoft hopes to extend its Passport online identification system into authorising credit card payments. Under the deal, Microsoft and Arcot plan to offer, later this autumn, a service that will let banks require computer users to type in their...
[July 9, 2002, 9:31]
Microsoft revisits Passport with InfoCard
News Regulators in the US and Europe eventually put restrictions on Microsoft and Passport, which today is used primarily as a login system for Microsoft services. The plans are reminiscent of Microsoft's largely failed efforts with Passport, a single...
[May 18, 2005, 15:50]
Microsoft says Passport boosts privacy
News Jason Catlett, president of privacy advocacy group Junkbusters, compared services such as Passport, Microsoft's online identification service, to a transnational identification card. However, Microsoft executive Brian Arbogast defended Passport...
[April 20, 2002, 7:31]
Passport failure shows the folly of Microsoft's ways
Leader This year, it seems, the festive period was a good time for Microsoft to bury Passport, its much-trumpeted single sign-on service. There are the early issues with security, which saw some users logged on to bogus Hotmail accounts, while others were...
[January 4, 2005, 13:25]
Gartner says 'ditch Microsoft Passport'
News Recommendations in an article published by analysis heavyweight Gartner urging its customers to break all connections with Microsoft's Passport authentication services are "a little extreme", according to the software company.
[May 19, 2003, 9:21]
Microsoft revisits Passport with InfoCard
Talkback With Passport they wanted to store your identity and credentials. The only things missing is the EU not coming down hard on Microsoft for still not complying to EU rules, the EU allowing Software Patents (or whatever it's called nowedays) and the...
[May 18, 2005, 23:52]
eBay revokes Microsoft's Passport
News Online auctioneer eBay officially has notified customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service, Passport. As of 24 January, 2005, eBay will no longer support Microsoft Passport as a means to...
[January 20, 2005, 7:55]
AmEx joins Microsoft Passport rivals
News American Express joined the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday, boosting Sun Microsystems' effort to counterbalance Microsoft's Passport authentication system. And ultimately, Microsoft hopes to charge for the services that people tap into via...
[December 6, 2001, 9:26]
Sun to challenge Microsoft's Passport
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy and corporate partners will unveil an alliance Wednesday for handling computer users' "digital identity", an effort likely aimed at Microsoft's Passport system for storing personal information and...
[September 26, 2001, 9:02]
Passport failure shows the folly of Microsoft's ways
Talkback The idea of PassPort is what the Liberty Alliance is about but then modified for a Microsoft only world. Remember that Microsoft was invited early on to join the Liberty Alliance but no, they had to come with their own modified version.
[January 6, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft revisits Passport with InfoCard
Talkback These silly Americans. Who would trust a company with their personal details that says "supereasy" anyway?
[May 18, 2005, 17:16]
eBay brings down the hammer on Microsoft Passport
Talkback In June 2003, this is the members they had: http://web.archive.org/web/20030605133606/www.passport.net/Directory/Default.asp? The rest of the sites are mostly Microsoft sites. With Ebay gone, thats about 20% of their client base.
[January 1, 2005, 8:45]
Passport failure shows the folly of Microsoft's ways
Talkback Good article, There is always the hard way to learn and the easy way to learn. But will MS ever learn.
[January 6, 2005, 9:39]
Passport failure shows the folly of Microsoft's ways
Talkback I like the idea of passport, shame its not gotten far. Maybe in the future if it can be pairred with the liberty allicance model it can work.
[January 4, 2005, 16:24]
eBay brings down the hammer on Microsoft Passport
News Microsoft's Passport service has just lost one of the biggest e-commerce companies on the planet.eBay said in a statement on its site that from late January it will no longer support the ability for members to sign on using Passport.
[December 30, 2004, 10:10]
Passport glitch hits Microsoft game site
News Microsoft's online gaming site suffered another glitch in its switch to the Passport identification system on Monday, logging subscribers on to a bogus Hotmail email account. Passport, a key part of Microsoft's .Net plan for focusing on online...
[January 30, 2002, 10:04]
