Anybody following Identity/Privacy today is rooting for OpenID. They look like the good guys and they have momentum. However the purchase of Credentica by Microsoft in March was below most people's radar screens. You would need a keen interest in Identity/Privacy and Cryptography to have taken notice, and you're already rooting for OpenID, so why even look at what the Beast of Redmond is doing? This must be an evil plan to suck us all into Hailstorm 2.0, right? Maybe not.
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