Windows Live supports OpenID

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/wi … -standard/

MS has just announced that Windows Live users will soon be able to use OpenID. As the Techcrunch article says:

MS "has announced that users will soon be able to login to any OpenID site using their Windows Live IDs. With over 400 million Windows Live accounts (many of which see frequent use on the Live’s Mail and Messenger services), the announcement is a massive win for OpenID. And Microsoft isn’t just supporting OpenID - the announcement goes as far as to call it the de facto login standard. "

However "while Windows Live accounts will work for logging into other sites, it’s unclear if Live will become a “relying party” that would allow users to login [to Windows Live] with third party OpenIDs.

While OpenID has issues, this will make supporting OpenID external authentication in FluxBB a quite useful proposition for many sites.