WS-Policy made it as well! It was finally submitted to a standard body: W3C was the logical choice, given the “meta” personality of the specification.The authors (BEA Systems Inc, IBM, Microsoft, SAP AG, Sonic Software, Verisign) are joined in the submission by an impressive list of co-submitter: Adobe Systems Incorporated, CA, Ericsson, IONA…
This Monday (April, the 24th,, at 11AM Pacific Time) I’m scheduled to deliver a positioning webcast, during which I will suggest some use of WinFx (excluding WPF) to address common issues in Manufacturing. Abstracts and subscriptions are available at the longest URL ever, that I will hide for your viewing convenience here. Abstract:…
While I’m on the topic, I just recalled something that never fails to bother me everytime I watch Minority Report. We spent rivers of virtual inks on many ppts, showing how adopting a federation approach saves you from odd situations in which an employee who resigned from its company is still able to…
As announced, the Longhorn Server SDR is here! I’m happily attending a session delivered by our Stuart Kwan, naturally about Identity. While exploring the challenges that a user faces while dealing with his many passwords, and the tendency to reuse the same credentials on multiple websites, he came out wiht a memorable (and…
An interesting paper, which decomposes the effectiveness of phishing through the analysis of its tricks arsenal. Infocard, the high assurance certificates and the completeness of the info given to the user by the Identity Selector address directly some of the concerns, while others are dispelled by the nature of the system itself (see older posts on…
A f a n t a s t i c writer. His stories so delicate and deep and geek appealing. Got to read him through Hofstadter, I loved his work; even before getting to profoundly appreciate his people. He’s gone. Thank you for the nice moments you gave the world, pan Lem.
With the new Vista Carousel control we discover that Windows are not tied to a 2D plane, but they can happily spin around in 3D space. Probably thanks to a really bad digestion, yesterday I found myself wondering how the back of a window [should] look like: if you rotate it more than…
I was just presenting to my wife the material for my next webcast on Infocard, and I realized I haven’t blogged about it! Actually, the webcast is going to be on WF, WCF & Infocard in Financial Services. This time the most excellent Marc will take care of the first 2, while for Infocard…
Longhorn Server. The ideal host for all the stuff I usually preach about from here, as we all know architecture can’t live in a vacuum… and if you thought that it is still too far for thinking about how to leverage it, well, it’s probably the right moment to reconsider [:)] 2007 is…
You asked for it, it’s here. Check out the excellent article from our own Mike Jones about how to use Infocard within web apps and with the browser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/infocardwebguide.asp