Robert_Charlton - 6:15 am on Jan 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

...larger agenda....

Requiring a Passport account to register Windows gives Passport a big leg up in the marketplace. MS would like to be ubiquitous on the web, and this would certainly help them.

There are others better qualified than I to discuss the implications of Passport and .net. I don't think that either the word "agenda" or "larger" is unfair, though.

Good starter discussion here...
What is Microsoft's .net?
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