Long-time followers of my blog will no doubt remember when I started this blog in Feb 2004. I began by asking the hot question of the day: " What is Service Orientation " and " Is .NET Remoting Dead? ". Since then I have continued to provided considerable guidance on how to position Microsoft's current distributed systems assets relative to the new wave of technologies in WinFX, as well as discussing many meta-issues such as the performance characteristics of distributed systems technologies , and much general discussion around SO, SOA and ESB. Today marks the beginning of a change in this blog - as evidenced by the title change! Today, I am happy to announce a change in position: I am now Product Manager of "InfoCard". Now, before you ask, I'll will explain "InfoCard" in several subsequent posts, but if you can't wait to find out, I suggest you go read through some of the whitepapers currently posted to the "InfoCard" portal . If you don't want to read, then go here , register (it's free) and watch BillG's keynote where you'll hear and see some of Microsoft's strategies for protecting you from abuse online and from a variety of online identity fraud (including a cool demo of "InfoCard" demonstrated by yours truly). Does this mean I'm not going to comment on WCF, SO, SOA, ESB, etc any more? You'd be that lucky! ;) Of course I will, but I'll also be interleaving discussion involving what Identity means, why it's important, what happens if we, the entire industry , don't work together
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