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Your organization can adopt Microsoft and third-party services using your existing identities through the Microsoft Federation Gateway service. If your organization uses Active Directory, this adoption can be enabled easily through the Microsoft Services Connector.
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Windows Live ID Blog
Many people have asked recently about the status of the Windows Live® ID community technology preview (CTP) OpenID endpoints, so here is a quick update. We gathered a lot of great feedback during the OpenID CTP period, and we have fed that into our team's OpenID product plans. Thanks to everyone who provided input—you have directly impacted the product! The Production release of Windows Live ID's....
Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID
Beginning today, Windows Live™ ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to sign in to any OpenID Web site!
The Windows Live ID Op....
There will be lots of the great sessions at the the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in October and the Windows Live Platform crew will be there in force to share all the latest goodness we have been working on during the last few months. You can expect some very interesting announcements at PDC that will be of great interest to anyone developing cloud applications.... Jorgen T....
Today the Windows Live™ ID team released the Delegated Authentication SDK v1.0, which provides a platform-neutral way for Web applications to access customers’ information from Windows Live services while customers remain in firm control of their own data. This release is part of a broader announcement of a whole set of releases from the Windows Live Platform team that are described by our boss Da....
Windows Live ID is very committed to the safety of its users. To further protect the users against phishing, Windows Live ID has adopted Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. EV SSL certificates require a company to undergo an extensive vetting process and provide users additional assurance about the identity and authenticity of web sites they visit. Thus when a user visits Live ID in IE7....