Microsoft Rethinks Passport

As I've previously noted Passport rapidly lost support in the market. Now ZDNet has an interview with MS chief identity architect and strategist Kim Cameron, on this very topic.

It seems that after Passport, Microsoft is rethinking identity. So dastardly was its Passport technology, some felt, that Microsoft's identity strategy had to be about a continuation of its domineering practices. The strategy even gave rise to an alliance -- the Sun-led Liberty Alliance -- to pull the rug out from underneath it and force Microsoft to come take a seat at the identity standards table.

To date, Microsoft still is sitting the Liberty Alliance out, but Cameron seems to want us to think that Microsoft has finally decided to mend its ways. For more, read the complete ZDNet article.