[OpenID] Windows Live ID OpenID CTP Status Update (August 2009)

[Chris Messina]

This post is very useful, and one of the more elaborate from one of the
majors. I want to commend Microsoft for providing the amount of information
that they did, and for sharing their findings (not with data, but still, the
takeaways are generally useful).
I would be very happy if Facebook, Yahoo, and Google all did the same.
Clearly folks have had some questions and challenges dealing with OpenID on
Google Apps for Your Domain, and it would be useful to understand where the
confusion is coming from so that we could work to address it.

In general, I find Microsoft's experience sobering — from both a privacy and
usability perspective. The things that are valued by the UCI community seem
to need to be jettisoned left and right because regular folks just don't
grok it. These things are important to consider — and merely complaining
about the loss of such features or the diminishment of certain priorities
does us no good.

Allen Tom, Steven Jackson and (I think) Luke Shepard have all been working
on the user experience of OpenID for several months now, and it's unclear to
me what the path to seeing that work adopted or reviewed is.

Microsoft is clearly making progress here — and it would behoove the OpenID
community, I believe, to take note of their lead and consider how we can
learn more about how OpenID is actually performing in the wild and how it's
being adopted and used (or not).

Chris

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great, thanks for the update!
>
> --David
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jorgen Thelin<jthelin at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > FYI, the Live ID Team has posted a blog post giving a status update on
> the
> > Live ID OpenID Provider Community Tech Preview and some of the lessons
> > learned (particularly around UI / user experience) which you guys may
> find
> > of interest.
> >
> > http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry
> >
> >
> >
> > I bet you all thought we had forgotten about this stuff ;-), but we are
> > actively working on the production OP release for Live ID users.
> >
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately I cannot publicly share any specific schedule details at
> this
> > stage. Stay tuned though :)
> >
> >
> >
> > - Jorgen
> >
> >
> >
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