From the Dark Side--M$'s Passport Bombs

Do you trust Microsoft? Heck no! Why on earth would anyone give all of their personal credit information to the king of swiss cheese software to hold? This CNet article covers the lack of progress in the once crown jewel of Microsoft's eCommerce strategy. Passport was designed to use M$'s operating system monopoly to corner the market on eCommerce transactions and collect a toll on each one from businesses. The consumers' response has been no way, Jose, in the face of a better model from the Liberty Alliance, including Sun and Intel, that doesn't use M$'s exclusive software and servers for authentication.