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.

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – Microsoft says the enterprise goal of its forthcoming InfoCard technology is to strip access control from centralized deployments and return it to the owners of specific network ...