Saw this story about eBay no longer using Microsoft Passport earlier and wanted to add some comments on it.

Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world’s biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities. But Microsoft said it will keep Passport up and running, despite the loss of one of its earliest and most important partners.

This might surprise some folks but I actually like Microsoft’s idea of trying to centralize and make it simpler and easier to manage passwords. I have taken to using a Pocket PC for maintaining the growing database of logins. One neat thing about the Tablet PC I bought recently is that by using a biometric fingerprint scan I can store logins and authenticate that way. It’s too bad more companies haven’t played ball with Microsoft on this one.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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