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Microsoft, Yahoo and Google now on their quarrels and possible partnerships in the online advertising and the search for markets and have united their forces in an effort to promote the management of identities on the Internet. In this context, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, in cooperation with IBM and Verisign are the first members of the works council of the Foundation OpenID. Essentially, the foundation OpenID is an initiative which has been set up to the users of OpenIDs no longer acceptable that Web identities.

"The OpenID constituency is a key element in the resolution of digital identity Internet users face problems, and they will win by the Foundation OpenID. Since Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced cooperation with the municipality OpenID February in RSA, Microsoft played a leading role in the establishment of the Foundation Open-political framework with which everyone in the development and utilization of the specifications OpenID. Well, we look forward to working together with the community in order to strongly and adoption of the specification, "said Kim Cameron, architect and director of the identity of the Microsoft.

In the end, the work of the Foundation OpenID support openness and interoperability between the different websites. The initiative is not only the users who have the ability to largely control of sensitive information, both online and the companies, by the availability of a simplified version of the system for managing the digital identity.

Via free OpenID technology, users can now take advantage of a single digital identity on several websites. Microsoft has shown that OpenID is as user-centric technology for digital identity, allowing the practice to have overhauled, with a variety of different names and passwords.
"OpenID Google shares the foundation in the vision of a website that is easy to use, built on open standards for the whole world," said Brad Fitzpatrick, a software engineer at Google. "Should OpenID was always a sign for the decentralization of the system, so it's fantastic to get a foundation committed to free and unused by proprietary extensions."

"Yahoo! Is of the opinion that a truly open network is the key for the next generation of experiences on the Internet; OpenID promotes this issue by providing a standards-based freelance for the solution can be found, include the entire industry," said Ash Patel, executive vice president of platforms and for the infrastructure of Yahoo!.

"In the last year we have developed in close cooperation with the Foundation to develop OpenID, the organization of intellectual property, the completion of the specification and 2.0 OpenID OpenID take to all 248 million d 'Active registered Yahoo! Users in the world. We look forward to working with the OpenID Foundation, the Board and the community to further simplify the consumer about the experience on the Web, with the user control over your online identity with OpenID. "