Microsoft Passport
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by... [04 Feb 2009]
Over 18? Equifax card lets you prove it online
News Such I-cards are designed to be the online equivalent of a driver's licence, passport, or similar ID. Other companies include Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and PayPal and... [14 Nov 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for anti-ID card and privacy pressure group NO2ID, said: "The really tricky part about faking a passport is getting a hold of convincing blanks. As NO2ID and others have shown, the... [29 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News However, James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, maintained that the cards would enhance airport security. M is for Microsoft The British Air Transport Association (Bata) said... [07 Jul 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile He's involved in a number of other groups, including the Public Sector Infrastructure Group, Government Connect Stakeholder Board and the Identity and Passport services local government advisory board. [11 Jun 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at MSN - Using MOM 2005 to Monitor One of the Largest Web Portals in the World (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast shows how Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is used to support the unique business requirements of MSN, Hotmail, and Passport through proactive monitoring and alerting. [01 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up It’s only gone and announced it is ditching plans that would have forced people to get a biometric ID card when they renew or apply for a passport. In related news, Microsoft this week dropped the price... [07 Mar 2008]
Yahoo! logs on to OpenID
News Microsoft has its own technology called Windows Live ID, previously known as Passport, which allows access to a variety of sites owned by the company and its partners. Yahoo! announced late last week it... [22 Jan 2008]
MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET & Web Services Security (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast will cover topics related to ASP.NET security including forms, windows & passport authentication as well as running a .NET process within IIS through impersonation. Security nowadays and age... [15 Jun 2007]
Open source ID projects cosy up to Microsoft
News Liberty Alliance was formed in 2001 to outflank Microsoft's now largely defunct Passport initiative and develop standards for federated online verification of identity. The Higgins and Bandit open source... [29 Jan 2007]
ID card procurement timetable revealed
News The contracts to build and run the UK's national ID card system will not go out to tender before April of next year, the head of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has admitted. At the meeting Hall outlined a number... [17 Nov 2006]
TechNet Webcast: Effectively Using IIS Security - Level 200
White Paper It also shows several new security features of IIS 6.0: including: SSL improvements, authentication using Microsoft Passport, URL Authorization, and constrained delegated authority. This webcast gives an... [09 Jun 2006]
Security 'network' to speed up anti-hacker tools
News For example, these could include biometrics for business security and passport applications systems, and systems to prevent identity fraud. The group has drawn its steering committee from organisations including Aviva,... [12 Apr 2006]
IE 7 gets its own 'bugzilla'
News The bug database is accessible from the Microsoft Connect site and can be accessed by anyone who has a Microsoft Passport account. Microsoft is for the first time... [27 Mar 2006]
Gates: The "software as a service" age is here
News To get to that point, Microsoft needs to converge the capabilities of software packages Active Directory (AD), Exchange and SharePoint portal, and with those of online services Hotmail, MSN Spaces and... [14 Sep 2005]
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