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It's interesting that no one has made a comparison with Microsoft's identity system (what used to be Passport, became Live and is now "your Microsoft account").
by Spearchucker 13y ago
It's interesting that no one has made a comparison with Microsoft's identity system (what used to be Passport, became Live and is now "your Microsoft account").
Passport started out well, then tanked, and the Microsoft account today just works across all Microsoft sites - from outlook.com to Windows Phone, Visual Studio, Skype and Windows 8 to Bing. Once the Passport mess settled nothing was really heard about identity at Microsoft again, and yet the little releases keep coming(ADFS 3, e.g.).
To me, if Eric Schmidt, Vic, Google+ et al had a failing, it was that of not learning from others' mistakes (and consequent successes). Frankly, given that Kim Cameron works for Microsoft I'm amazed that anyone could use the word identity and not start by looking at how Microsoft does it.
- simplemath 13y agoI actually like what G has done with chrome SSO and turning Chrome into the default dashboard for their apps. I've found myself actually using G+ more and more. Rolling Picasa into + is a really good strategy as well -" Oh hey, my GS4 auto - uploaded all these cool photos from last weekend, might as well share them" Ironically enough, I think G+ faced its own identity problem for too long and failed to get critical mass because of it. To me, the increasing convergence of chrome and android is a bigger deal than anything happening with +
- Spearchucker 13y agoI agree with what you say. Still find it amusing that after the real name fiasco Google is left having to regain users' trust, whereas Microsoft did nothing to gain anyone's trust and yet people log into their operating system using a Microsoft account!
- simplemath 13y agoPEBCAK, PEBCAK everywhere...