Wow, here’s a really great article about identity management from, um, er, Microsoft. Actually, it’s a rather remarkable Microsoft article, since it contains the following sentences: On February 14, 2006, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates declared that passwords would be gone where the dinosaurs rest in three to four years. But as I write this in March 2009, it is pretty clear that Bill was wrong. But it’s not for that frisson that you should read it; it’s for the following insight, which r