[OpenID] Supporting OpenID

[Will Merydith]

I'm trying to understand what it actually means when Google, MSFT and Yahoo!
mean when they say they support OpenID.

We've been testing our implementation of OpenID on our systems, and at the
same time pitching the concept and power of OpenID to our clients (major
music companies like WMG and Sony).  Yet our testing is showing some discord
between the OpenID logo mashups (you've seen them where MSFT, Google, Yahoo!
and OpenID are all in the same logo cluster) and the reality.

I wanted to verify our perception.

Yahoo! (and Flickr) - we've got it working,  it would have been a snap
except that Yahoo! is appending an alpha numeric string to the end of the
identity URL.  We cannot find documentation detailing the purpose of that
string.

Google - completely broken, and when a user tries to use a Google OpenID
identity, they get a message from Google that says, "Warning: this is
currently buggy, and it's not high enough priority to spend time on right
now. Hopefully I'll get to it soon!"

MSFT - cannot find any implementation, despite language from Microsoft and
the community claiming "Microsoft *is* supporting OpenID".  Is their a
timeline for support or documentation on the MSFT site detailing the
implementation?

Thanks!
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