Re: UKNM: microsoft bugs / passport

[Giles Turnbull]

At 10:49 11/10/00, Ian wrote:

>What do people think of Microsoft Passport - I've seen a couple of US sites

>use it, but no European ones as yet - is this going to be the holy grail of

>conversion - 1-click ordering all over the web. . . ?


Joel Spolsky wrote a very interesting and amusing piece on his site about

Passport, ("Does issuing Passports make Microsoft a country?"). He says the

whole thing is a privacy nightmare...


http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$139


Giles

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