Microsoft to support OpenID
Feb 7th, 2007 by Phil Dawes
Microsoft, Verisign, Sxip and JanRain have announced that they will all support the OpenID protocol in their upcoming products. Kim Cameron has the scoop (but then he would have, being the ‘Chief Architect of Identity’ at Microsoft).
Looks like we might have our web identity winner. Maybe, finally, this will be the year of web identity.
I have nothing interesting to say, I’m just using my OpenID to leave a comment for the sake of it
I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to leave a comment using my OpenID to sign in
Ah - looks like you’ve been bitten by the ‘comment not showing up because it’s queued for moderation’ trick.
(I had to turn on moderation - too much spam was slipping through and adverts for viagra don’t look too good on the internal company blog aggregator)
Malcolm and JP’s blog tell you that your comment is awaiting moderation. Not sure about mine.
Anyway, can you delete one of my comments to stop me looking such a tit?
But if I delete it, my comment won’t make sense and I’ll look like a tit!
I think my comment system does the same for vanilla comments, but I’m guessing the openid plugin must be incompatible somehow.
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