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Microsoft plans CardSpace plug-in for Firefox
Published November 18th, 2006 in All Categories, Extensions, Firefox
Microsoft will write a software plug-in that allows the Firefox open-source Web browser to work 
with Microsoft’s CardSpace identity management technology. The plug-in will be written at Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab and released eventually to the open-source community, said Hank Janssen, the lab’s program manager, at the TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona on Wednesday.
"We’re actually writing the CardSpace extension, and [The Mozilla Foundation] were very, very excited about it," according to Janssen.
CardSpace, which was formerly called InfoCard, aims to make it easier for users to manage and control the personal information they give to Web sites. Microsoft is promoting it as a way to replace user names and passwords and provide a better defense against phishing and other types of online fraud. Microsoft plans CardSpace plug-in for Firefox | InfoWorld | News | 2006-11-16 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
