[OpenID] Messenger Connect ships today

[Peter Watkins]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:44:33AM -0700, Sarah Faulkner wrote:
> Windows Live just shipped a beta of our Messenger Connect platform. The
> platform uses OAuth WRAP (among other standards
...
> and a new consent dialogue
...
> to enable third party websites to access a user’s Windows Live data.

Thanks for the info. 

Reading between the lines... does this mean that the Windows Live team
has decided against providing an OpenID OP service? Last August's
announcement that the OpenID CTP was closing sounded optimistic
about a production system replacing it
http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry
but I don't recall hearing anything else from Windows Live about OpenID.

Are you also working on an OpenID OP service?

All this social graph stuff is lovely (except that it seems everyone has
their own slightly different technology mix), but what I really want from
you is an easy way to let your users log in to my sites without setting up 
new accounts that will only get them into our systems. :-)

Thanks,

Peter