Technical mumbo jumbo at this point, but this looks like the beginning of Microsoft support for OpenID. We'll have to wait to see what eventually becomes of this, but the future looks bright.
brad.livejournal.com/2287909.html
identityblog.com/?p=668
Now on BBC:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog...
(OpenID solves the problem exaggerated here:)
uselessaccount.com/ [note: references OpenID, before the above announcement]
