SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and ...

It was amazing, a revelation really. I’ve said in the past that Bill Gates didn’t really understand the whole “identity thing” but evidently he’s been taking lessons privately. In case you missed it, ...

With the Vista launch behind him, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer and security patron, were on stage the 16th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco before ...

The basic premise of the OpenID initiative is that there's no reason to force an Internet user to maintain dozens of identities scattered across different web services. The OpenID Foundation has been ...

Microsoft and Google are living up to a promise they made in February by showing signs of OpenID support in its product code. OpenID works identically to the login methods of Google Accounts and ...

Last issue I talked about the two recent acquisitions in the enterprise single sign-on and software-as-a-service sectors but there was more happening last week, and it was in the user-centric identity ...

Over 16 months after first declaring its support for the OpenID authentication platform, Microsoft has finally implemented it for the first time, allowing for OpenID logins on its Health Vault medical ...

As anticipated by TechCrunch UK in early January, OpenID is welcoming some big new partners to the club – Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM (TechCrunch UK anticipated all but Microsoft). Google has ...

After some four years of wrangling, the OpenID Foundation has finally given the thumbs-up to OpenID Connect, its protocol for both authenticating users and providing a distributed way to handle ...

TechMeme is reporting that Microsoft, Google, Verisign, and IBM have all joined the OpenID board. Yahoo and Google are involved or getting involved with OpenID. But that's not enough. As Michael ...