Johannes Ernst of NetMesh puts flesh on the bones of Microsoft's InfoCard digital ID scheme. If you Google Microsoft's InfoCard, you mostly seem to find people asking "who can tell me more about ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft is planning to release a technical preview of its proposed new federated digital ID management system InfoCard to Web developers next week. The Infocard platform is designed to address user ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp.'s fledgling InfoCard online identification project has won support from one of the biggest names in the field. VeriSign Inc. showed plans Wednesday to let people ...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – Microsoft says the enterprise goal of its forthcoming InfoCard technology is to strip access control from centralized deployments and return it to the owners of specific network ...

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 ...

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 ...

An industry group that includes IBM Corp., Novell Inc. and others outlined plans Monday for an online identity system that could offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s recently announced InfoCard ...

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 ...