The idea of having a common ID or Open ID to login to different websites has been floating around for a while now. But now the Idea has received a boost with Industry Giants like Google and Microsoft showing interest in the Idea.
Both Microsoft and Google have decided to join hands and enviel a plan which will sign-up their users into a Open ID scheme.
This move will enable around 400 million users to sign-up for the service.
The Idea Behind Open ID.
The basic Idea behind the Open ID was to lessen the mental burden as well as the administrative burden on users of having different Logon Id’s and password for different websites.
Both Microsoft and Google have been backing up the Open ID idea since 2007, but decided to release the tools only now.
The Open ID idea has really caught on and around 10.000 websites seem to have adopted the scheme.
The Idea However has received a lot of Criticism form people all over in terms of security and other concerns.
Posted under Latest News
This post was written by Brad on October 31, 2008
