You might remember Microsoft's first attempt at addressing this problem, Passport, which Microsoft uses on its own MSDN Web site (and elsewhere), but which never caught on as Microsoft hoped it would.

IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open-source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open-source ...

Microsoft’s Chairman Bill came down from the mountain to San Jose last week, to deliver his wisdom to the assembled masses at RSA Conference 2006. This event used to be called the RSA Security ...

Passport and passwords are both on the way out, according to Bill Gates, who made his pitch for a new kind of online authentication technology at the RSA Conference 2006 in California today. His ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Trying to simplify online transactions and make them safer, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday showed off a tool that manages all the user names and passwords that ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn ...

LOS ANGELES – Looking to ease the way customers manage their digital identities, Microsoft has begun working to integrate its InfoCard authentication technology with Internet Explorer and is in ...

Microsoft released on Monday its first beta versions of three developer technologies that will underlie the development platform for its forthcoming Longhorn Windows update. Included in the Beta 1 ...