The Microsoft Passport solution was proprietary, heavy-weight, required a licence to use and was over-engineered. It had a pretty good user experience but it was Microsoft and it was also difficult and expensive to install.
OpenID is decentralised, open-source, free and does one and pretty much only one thing very well. It may not win but historically those have been shown to be really good traits for success.
OpenID is decentralised, open-source, free and does one and pretty much only one thing very well. It may not win but historically those have been shown to be really good traits for success.