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Looks like they're aiming to become a cloud-based active directory, abstracting away authentication to a higher level single identity. They want to become some
by ballenf 5y ago
Looks like they're aiming to become a cloud-based active directory, abstracting away authentication to a higher level single identity.
They want to become something like a Passport for users across the web.
If they can do this, it will be huge. But hopefully I'm not alone in hating this direction and see tracking individual identities as a small price to pay to protect freedoms.
- otterley 5y agoMicrosoft tried this over 20 years ago, even calling it Microsoft Passport and offering it free of charge, and it failed miserably: https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/12/microsoft-passport-brings-convenience-safety-to-e-commerce/ https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/12/microsoft-passport-bri...
- Karunamon 5y agoThere's such a thing as being too ahead of the game. 20 years ago is an eternity in tech; there's nothing to say it might not work now.
- encryptluks2 5y agoThere is also something to be said about free not actually being free, and anyone with common sense would know that "free" from Microsoft means practically the opposite.