Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and Verisign have all become the OpenID Foundation's first corporate board members, giving a push to the seven-month-old group's ideas about portable web identities or OpenIDs and how personal information is shared online, something that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all caught flak for. OpenID is a free decentralized sign-on technology that eliminates the need for multiple user names across Internet sites and is supposed to give people more control over their digital identities and what exactly is shared. There are so far 350 million OpenID-enabled URLs in existence. Microsoft has donated legal resources to the cause.
Kenneth wrote: You forgot
to mention a disadvantage
of xmlHttpRequest that is
a major issue for me: You
can't(at least not
directly) run scripts
that are returned as part
of the response.
MS News Desk wrote:
Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer is now running
the company's Windows,
Windows Live and Internet
properties after Kevin
Johnson, the president of
the company's Platforms
and Services Divisi...
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