Microsoft Snuck CardSpace Onto Your XP PC
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CardSpace (formerly InfoCard) is Microsoft’s new digital identity meta-system that comes with Windows Vista by default. Now, if you have .NET Framework 3.0 on your PC, you have CardSpace; it’s a .NET 3.0 component. But you probably didn’t know that (I didn’t) unless you’re a .NET enthusiast. There was no fanfare about it.
I’m glad to see it, in a way–as CardSpace becomes widely adopted, it’s going to make the Internet a much more secure place. It just bothers me that I didn’t know about it. I would have been playing with it long before now.
Cheers!
The Geek
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2 Comments
marc klink
August 17th, 2007
at 3:31pm
Just like Big Brother. Microsoft thinks we need them to help us in every aspect of our lives. And they wonder why there is so much anti-Microsoft sentiment in the world.
Bob
August 18th, 2007
at 10:09am
Just another reason to be a Tux lover. Microsoft is trying to control our lives in ways that is just out right scary.