eBay Nixing Microsoft&#39;s Passport
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has lost another partner to market its single sign-on services after auction giant eBay (Quote, Chart) said it will no longer support Passport and its .
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eBay defies cynics, but the absence of sellers is troubling.
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Microsoft's decision to reposition its .Net Passport identification system comes as Monster is dropping support for the authentication service.
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MacCentral - Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.
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Redmond&#39;s not extending its basic support for NT 4 and Exchange 5.5, but it is extending custom paid support for the product. While Microsoft continues to emphasize that it is not extending its basic support
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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Starting late January 2005 eBay will no longer support Microsoft&#39;s Passport and .NET Alerts. The Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page
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InfoWorld - A pro-business think tank in Europe has recommended unbundling Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Windows operating system from sales of new PCs in order to give customers more choice when buying a new computer.
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Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners. Microsoft no longer sees Passport as a single sign-on system for the Web at large, a spokeswoman said.
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EBay announced Thursday that it will keep its Half.com subsidiary open indefinitely, scrapping previous plans to shutter the e-commerce site in mid-October.
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Secondary IPS site in shared credentials snafu Digital certificate glitches have affected the operation of a secondary website used for UK passport applications.â¦
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Lawyers speak Microsoft today lost the majority of its appeal against the European Commission anti-trust decision. Microsoft will have to open up access to its server protocols, continue selling a version of its Windows operating system without Media Player, and pay a fine of at least â¬497m.â¦
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EBay, the online marketplace, yesterday continued its push across the globe with a $530m (Â£296m) offer to take full control of its South Korean affiliate, Internet Auction Co.
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The officials of online auction site eBay and its payments unit PayPal are reportedly in talks over the possibility of applying for a limited banking charter, Dow Jones/Associated Press claims.
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The online auctioneer notifies customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service.
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Blog: Microsoft says selling Linux coupons doesn't constitute acceptance of the new General Public License, and those coupons won't include support for GPL 3 software.
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Online auction giant eBay Inc. will stop letting members sign in to its site using Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Passport service, another sign of the scaling back of the Redmond company&#39;s once-sweeping vision for its user authentication system.