eBay brings down the hammer on Microsoft Passport

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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay

Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay 12/31/2004 06:44 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 31 2004 8:50PM GMT

eBay revokes Microsoft Passport

eBay revokes Microsoft Passport 01/04/2005 12:49 PM
eBay has withdrawn support for Microsoft's Passport authentication service. Once touted as a single, Internet-wide authentication service, Passport will now only be used on the sites of Microsoft and its close partners.

eBay dumps Microsoft Passport

eBay dumps Microsoft Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
PC Authority Dec 31 2004 5:04AM GMT

eBay drops Microsoft Passport

eBay drops Microsoft Passport 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
p2pnet.net Dec 30 2004 7:14PM GMT

eBay Drops Microsoft Passport Sign-In

eBay Drops Microsoft Passport Sign-In 12/30/2004 11:16 AM
Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that "once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information." The announcement came with practically no warning; however, in recent months, it had become much more difficult to sign up for alerts through Microsoft's .NET services as the pages to do so were buried on eBay's site.

eBay drops Microsoft Passport Sign In
and .NET Alerts

eBay drops Microsoft Passport Sign In
and .NET Alerts 12/30/2004 12:04 PM
eBay announced on Wednesday that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts. Members currently using the service will have to sign in directly through eBay sometime in January. "Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information," eBay said in a statement. "As part of this change, we will also discontinue sending eBay Notifications through Microsoft .Net alerts."

Shopping website eBay shows Microsoft
Passport the door

Shopping website eBay shows Microsoft
Passport the door 01/03/2005 07:31 AM
Cape Argus Jan 3 2005 11:47AM GMT

EBay Cancels Its Passport

EBay Cancels Its Passport 01/05/2005 08:15 AM

eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport

eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
Reuters Dec 31 2004 5:00AM GMT

Other News: eBay drops Passport

Other News: eBay drops Passport 12/31/2004 05:03 AM
Online auction giant eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport and will no longer support logins through Passport or .Net.

eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In

eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In 12/29/2004 08:09 PM

eBay to drop Microsoft's Passport

eBay to drop Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 11:42 PM
TechSpot Dec 31 2004 3:23AM GMT

eBay drops Microsoft's Passport

eBay drops Microsoft's Passport 01/03/2005 09:41 PM
InfoWorld Jan 4 2005 12:51AM GMT

eBay divorces from Microsoft's Passport

eBay divorces from Microsoft's Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
Xinhua News Agency Dec 31 2004 6:17AM GMT

eBay Nixing Microsoft's Passport

eBay Nixing Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
asia.internet.com Dec 30 2004 10:23PM GMT

eBay To Stop .Net Passport Sign-In

eBay To Stop .Net Passport Sign-In 12/29/2004 10:08 PM
Online auction site eBay will stop allowing users to sign in via their .Net Passport. In an announcement made earlier today, eBay stated that towards the end of January, users would only be able to sign-in to eBay via a direct login on the site. eBay's decision to stop using passport sign-ins means that they will also be dropping use of .Net alerts on the site. .Net alerts, similar to those offered by Neowin (via Messagecast), gave eBay users information on the status of on-going auctions.

eBay will begin offering Wireless alerts to replace .Net alerts, giving users information direct to their device on auctions they have bid on (for free). eBay will also start to promote their toolbar for Internet Explorer (here) which gives similar information on an auctions status.

Microsoft stated earlier in the year that they would discontinue development on .Net passports; the program, although launched with good intentions, was dogged with privacy concerns and faced a lack of demand for the system from online websites. With eBay's decision, Passport will pursue a lonely future on Microsoft sites and products (Hotmail, MSN Messenger) only. Passport faced competition from the Liberty Alliance group who attempted to offer an alternative to Microsoft's product.

Also dropped recently was the Microsoft Directory of Passport enabled sites; one might be lead to believe that the list became so slim it was an embarrassment to the company to keep it online. That said, it's also not hard to believe that there isn't still room for an open, universal sign-on mechanism that is easy and cheap for websites to deploy and offer to their users. Perhaps the Liberty Alliance will succeed where Microsoft failed.

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EBay Loses Microsoft's Passport

EBay Loses Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Smart Money Dec 30 2004 10:15PM GMT

eBay to Drop Passport, .NET Support

eBay to Drop Passport, .NET Support 12/29/2004 08:10 PM
Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that "once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information."

EBay to drop support for Microsoft's
Passport

EBay to drop support for Microsoft's
Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Reuters UK Dec 30 2004 10:21PM GMT

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport
(AP)

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport
(AP) 12/30/2004 10:01 PM
AP - EBay Inc. became the latest Web site to say it will stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport user authentication system, as Microsoft continues to scale back the service.

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Dec 30 2004 8:21PM GMT

EBay to Drop Support for Microsoft's
Passport (Reuters)

EBay to Drop Support for Microsoft's
Passport (Reuters) 12/30/2004 04:33 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities.

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EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o

Review: Advances make car-sharing easy
EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o 01/02/2005 02:43 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sat Jan 1, 12:25 pm GMT

Purported Elvis Water Brings $455
Bid on EBay (Reuters)

Purported Elvis Water Brings $455
Bid on EBay (Reuters) 12/28/2004 05:05 PM
Reuters - Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay.

Microsoft in Passport retreat

Microsoft in Passport retreat 12/31/2004 06:35 AM
Mad.co.uk Dec 31 2004 10:46AM GMT

Microsoft curtails Passport

Microsoft curtails Passport 12/30/2004 09:56 PM
Business Standard India Dec 31 2004 1:32AM GMT

Microsoft Loses Passport

Microsoft Loses Passport 12/31/2004 12:08 PM

Microsoft To Curtail Passport

Microsoft To Curtail Passport 01/03/2005 12:30 PM
E-Commerce Times Jan 3 2005 3:49PM GMT

Other News: Microsoft Passport

Other News: Microsoft Passport 01/03/2005 12:45 PM
The world's largest monopoly had trouble imposing its e-commerce scheme, "Passport".

Microsoft Declares Passport a Failure

Microsoft Declares Passport a Failure 01/03/2005 09:54 PM

Microsoft: Passport Contracts to be
Phased Out

Microsoft: Passport Contracts to be
Phased Out 12/31/2004 06:55 PM
Is Microsoft sending mixed messages about the future for its Passport authentication service? Analysts say outside contracts for the service won't be renewed.

Microsoft to stop pushing Passport

Microsoft to stop pushing Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
Big News Network Dec 31 2004 5:43AM GMT

Microsoft to Share Passport Code

Microsoft to Share Passport Code 10/11/2002 07:55 AM
UPDATE: Microsoft regales an audience at a conference in Denver with promises to release portions of its digital identity management Passport code.

Microsoft revokes Passport service

Microsoft revokes Passport service 12/30/2004 04:54 PM
The Register Dec 30 2004 7:39PM GMT

Microsoft Passport Running Out of Steam

Microsoft Passport Running Out of Steam 12/30/2004 09:57 PM
CIO Today Dec 31 2004 12:38AM GMT

Microsoft to stop marketing Passport

Microsoft to stop marketing Passport 12/30/2004 11:16 AM
The newspaper said the software giant had confirmed the step down after one of the service's biggest backers, eBay Inc. (EBAY: news, chart, profile), said Wednesday it would stop using Passport next month in favor of its own product. It said few customers had taken up the Microsoft (MSFT: news, chart, profile) service. Passport keeps track of online consumers' credit card and password information as they move from site to site. It has drawn the ire of privacy advocates, industry regulators and technology security experts, who in 2003 found a security glitch that could have led to massive identity theft, the paper said.

Microsoft to abandon Passport service

Microsoft to abandon Passport service 12/31/2004 02:17 PM
IT Vibe Dec 31 2004 6:33PM GMT

Microsoft to Curtail Passport Service

Microsoft to Curtail Passport Service 12/30/2004 04:25 AM
Los Angeles Times Dec 30 2004 8:22AM GMT

Microsoft publica el Passport SDK para
Linux

Microsoft publica el Passport SDK para
Linux 11/13/2003 06:32 AM

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