Microsoft Fails to Successfully Commercialize Passport
Joseph Menn reports on Microsoft's announcement that it is abandoning its efforts to persuade others to adopt its Passport service.
Passport probably drew few new customers to Microsoft products. But it was initially seen as strategically important because it could have helped the Redmond, Wash.-based company put itself in the middle of most electronic transactions.
Because it would keep track of credit card numbers and passwords as people moved from Web site to Web site, Microsoft had predicted that Passport would smooth the way for widespread use of Web services based on a person's identity instead of those linked to information stored on a specific PC.
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