Online auctioneer eBay officially has notified customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service, Passport.
As previously reported, the move is the latest blow to Passport, which had originally been marketed as a single online storage place for Internet users' sensitive data. The authentication system has been scaled back to support only services from Microsoft and its close partners.
"As of January 24, 2005, eBay will no longer support Microsoft Passport as a means to sign in," the online auctioneer stated in an e-mail message dated Wednesday and seen by CNET News.com.
A representative of eBay confirmed that the company had sent messages to its members and that it would stop supporting Passport authentication beginning Jan. 24.
This is not old news. This was previously reported as something Ebay "was going to do." Yesterday, they sent the official notification to registered users. Yesterday's notification is the event actually taking place, and is considered news. Something that actually happened.
Microsoft probably changed nothing... EBay claims streamlining and simplification... their financial report shows lower than expected earnings. I imagine that not supporting Passport in addition to their own authentication would reduce some expenditure.... and remove a redundant authentication scheme. Besides... Passport isn't really catching on in a big way.
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EBay claims streamlining and simplification... their financial report shows lower than expected earnings. I imagine that not supporting Passport in addition to their own authentication would reduce some expenditure.... and remove a redundant authentication scheme. Besides... Passport isn't really catching on in a big way.