<div>Hi Peter, </div>
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<div>The Windows Live team has not decided against being an Open ID provider. The Messenger Connect platform is driven by scenarios to share data across websites, which is a primary reason we have used the OAuth protocol instead of Open ID. Microsoft is very much engaged with the Open ID community; we have hosted two Open ID summits in the last few months.</div>
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<div>Your website can use our Messenger Connect offering to authenticate Windows Live ID users and recieve a CID. It will also let you request access to data like their profile so sites can avoid sign-up flows that request the same information. </div>
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<div>Thank you for your feedback.</div>
<div>Sarah</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Peter Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterw@tux.org">peterw@tux.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:44:33AM -0700, Sarah Faulkner wrote:<br>> Windows Live just shipped a beta of our Messenger Connect platform. The<br>> platform uses OAuth WRAP (among other standards<br>...<br>
> and a new consent dialogue<br>...<br>> to enable third party websites to access a user’s Windows Live data.<br><br></div>Thanks for the info.<br><br>Reading between the lines... does this mean that the Windows Live team<br>
has decided against providing an OpenID OP service? Last August's<br>announcement that the OpenID CTP was closing sounded optimistic<br>about a production system replacing it<br><a href="http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry" target="_blank">http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry</a><br>
but I don't recall hearing anything else from Windows Live about OpenID.<br><br>Are you also working on an OpenID OP service?<br><br>All this social graph stuff is lovely (except that it seems everyone has<br>their own slightly different technology mix), but what I really want from<br>
you is an easy way to let your users log in to my sites without setting up<br>new accounts that will only get them into our systems. :-)<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Peter<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>