Will Microsoft Save the Internet?

[Mike F]

Wired.com looks at the InfoCard system being rolled out with Windows Vista.

"The InfoCard system will first be distributed with Vista, Microsoft's newest Windows OS, set for release this year. The system effectively adds an "identity layer" to the Internet, accomplishing what security companies have been promising for years: making it difficult to falsify an identity and easy to verify your own. Here's how it works:. . . . "

Ooh, that's a teaser

[Barnes]

This is the best part;

"It's a protocol - a set of rules for exchanging information - not a Microsoft product."

[octothorp]

I wasn't aware that the Internet needed saving. Why? Because people aren't making absolutely all their purchases online, and are still getting off their asses to go get groceries rather than placing an order online? "An extraordinary gift to the online world"?! Oh yes, I'm sure that they've got purely altruistic reasons for this technology. This writer is a complete MS kissass.

[Flashpoint]

Now your internet usage can be tracked by foreign governments more easily! YAY! Don't read about human rights and then catch a flight to China.

Oh, right, I can CONTROL what information is released. Because that is working so well on the current XP system.