The goal is to work towards rapidly prototyping new products and services.

But, to date, the Liberty Alliance has delivered no technology at all, ... It's just delivered a bunch of statements by Microsoft competitors that somehow some unannounced technology is better than proprietary technology, when in fact Passport is totally on path, announced in public to embrace an open industry standard that anybody can implement on.

Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box.

If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.

I'm not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

It's been floating around in one form or another. It is sort of an unfortunate consequence of the freedom the Internet offers.

Everyone likes to write that the game is over -- but it is still early. The story is that people are finally lining up in the starting blocks.

It's possible for folks to ask customers to give them more data, but we will make it very clear what information goes to Passport and what goes to the partners,

It makes sense for both parties to focus on what's core.

For a lot of users, it will feel like infinite scroll.