Robert_Charlton - 6:26 pm on Jan 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

...you have to use passport. Get over it. If this was Apple or Redhat no one would give a fig

In my case, not so. I don't know about others. I simply don't want certain personal identifiers used for trivial stuff.

In the past, these have included use of Social Security number or credit card numbers as ID for low level transactions, like check cashing, etc... and, guess what, enough people felt the same way that the consensus is now with me.

In the case of MS Passport, the info request is not quite that invasive, but it's invasive enough that it bothers me. For a US Passport, the same info is appropriate. For MS, Apple, Redhat, or my corner store, definitely not.

Otherwise, I have no problem with registering my MS software, and in fact in the past I've preferred to do so.