Bill Gates talks; New Password Managment for Vista, XP

JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
edited February 2006 in Science & Tech
Bill Gates outlines new feature for Windows XP and Windows Vista; integrated password/username management software. This new feature for XP and Vista will save your passwords and usernames for easy online web surfing without all the hassle.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft plans to include technology in both Windows Vista and Windows XP for allowing users to manage their passwords and identities across multiple Web sites, according to the company's Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates.

Gates discussed Microsoft's plans for the technology, code-named InfoCard, today during a keynote at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California. The technology acts as a "wallet" where users can store the identity and password information for how they would like to be identified on various Web sites, said Michael Stephenson, Microsoft's director of product management for identity and access, in an interview following Gates's keynote.

Using InfoCard will eliminate the need for users to remember multiple identities and passwords for Web sites with which they do business, he said. It also will help them manage what information is provided across those sites.
Source: PCWorld

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  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Hopefully they'll encrypt that info. Otherwise it's no different from (the infamous) Gator. Or the way IE and Mozilla already stores logins and passwords. Am I missing something that actually makes this Info-Card thing relevant?
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