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Microsoft, AOL Join OpenID Community



As highlighted in "14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now ," both AOL and Microsoft are engineering OpenID into products and services. With two industry giants moving in this direction, how long will it be before we see other key identity players line up. Are you listening Oracle? IBM? Google? Yahoo? Sun? (and let's don't forget eBay and Amazon, shall we?)

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