Microsoft’s Chairman Bill came down from the mountain to San Jose last week, to deliver his wisdom to the assembled masses at RSA Conference 2006. This event used to be called the RSA Security ...

Passport and passwords are both on the way out, according to Bill Gates, who made his pitch for a new kind of online authentication technology at the RSA Conference 2006 in California today. His ...

You might remember Microsoft's first attempt at addressing this problem, Passport, which Microsoft uses on its own MSDN Web site (and elsewhere), but which never caught on as Microsoft hoped it would.

In a company as large as Microsoft, the comings and goings of employees can often be overlooked. But there were two transactions this month – one coming, one going – that ought to be of interest to ...

Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn ...

IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open-source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open-source ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Trying to simplify online transactions and make them safer, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday showed off a tool that manages all the user names and passwords that ...

Microsoft Corp. released on Monday its first beta versions of three developer technologies that will underlie the development platform for its forthcoming Longhorn Windows update. Included in the Beta ...

Microsoft's new InfoCard technology is designed to manage all of your online identities while keeping you in control of your information. Has the company discovered authentication nirvana at last?