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Sam,

No I think the poster meant, if my OpenID is salexander.myvidoop.com and I wish to have another provider look after it by delegation, can I do that?

Or rephrasing it, will Vidoop be offering OpenID delegation to it's user base? – markcross, on October 01, 2008 19:20

Linux-to-Outsell-Windows-in-Mobile-Internet-Device-Market

"Any Windows Mobile support planned in the future?"

Dear Guest,

Microsoft has three basic revenue streams:

Server OS (they are slowly losing market share)
Office - wow, haven't they dropped the price to get volume?
Desktop OS

The top Christmas pressy for many kids is going to be a couple of $000 Linux based Notebook, especially in China etc.

Now it may have escaped people's attention but when these kids who are aged 5-10 yro now are 18 and set up in business, they will choose OpenOffice. So that's revenue's 2 & 3 gone in 8 seasons time. That's a whole hunk of MS margin.

1 - Windows Mobile is pig to develop for - ask around, 2 why, for what will feel like just 5 business years are software companies going to put in all that development effort - I certainly wouldn't.

Who uses Big Iron now? [IT'S HISTORY]

Dear Pat,

Sorry I don't quite follow your line of thought here:

For example, ask the average youngster who uses the Internet and I bet they have about 20+ online accounts. (I have more because I'm a total Nethead)

Some will use two or three passwords. One for the bank they write down, one for web email - which they memorise and perhaps an easy one for quick stuff.

Now given 2/3 passwords over 20 accounts, namely with user names that are often email address - I do not follow your logic that OpenID is that much insecure that the situation we have at the moment. Especially when you can often do recovery via email...

One or two providers are already offering hardware tokens which is providing two-factor authentication, I think you have to reflect, OpenID is actually a better way to go?

Cheers Mark