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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

InfoCards on the Vista horizon

By | February 14, 2006, 1:30pm PST

Summary: Speaking at the RSA conference in San Jose, Bill Gates said that he now has the right weapons to supplant the password for verifying identities over the next few years. Vista will include InfoCards, technology that gives users the capability to manage authentication and payment information. Note: It’s not Passport revisited. InfoCard image here.  Video of Gates’ [...]

Speaking at the RSA conference in San Jose, Bill Gates said that he now has the right weapons to supplant the password for verifying identities over the next few years. Vista will include InfoCards, technology that gives users the capability to manage authentication and payment information. Note: It’s not Passport revisited. InfoCard image herekim.jpgVideo of Gates’ keynote here.

Kim Cameron of Microsoft is the man behind the InfoCards curtain. Read his blog if you want to know what’s inside and around InfoCards…

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