From: "Geo" 

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MSDN subscribers are not the only ones who need passport. Windows Live, =
Hotmail, MSN, try and use any of these services popular features and you =
are pretty much forced to use passport.

I gave just one example which forced me to use it. I paid for something =
and was forced to get a passport to take advantage of it.

Geo.
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:447bb6d9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Are you trying to be as much an idiot as mike miller?  Not only are =
MSDN subscribers an insignificant fraction of the more than 200 million =
users, they are in no way forced.  That is unless you consider people =
that sign up for any other optional subscription service forced to make =
that choice.  Or maybe you consider members of other services that =
require signing in such as ebay or amazon.com as being forced.

     In the mean time, Passport has been extraordinarily successful.

  Rich

    "Geo"  wrote in message =
news:447ba9e8$3{at}w3.nls.net...

    "Rich"  wrote in message news:447b6ce9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
    >>   There are a great many folks that would like to
"fail" as you =
claim
    Passport has with more than 200 million users.

    Just because a customer who buys MSDN needs to sign up for a =
passport to
    access their MSDN online, doesn't make them a "user". Forced don't =
count.

    Geo.


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MSDN subscribers are not the only ones =
who need=20
passport. Windows Live, Hotmail, MSN, try and use any of these=20
services popular features and you are pretty much forced
to = use=20
passport.
 
I gave just one example which
forced me =
to use it.=20
I paid for something and was forced to get a passport to take advantage = of=20
it.
 
Geo.

  "Rich" <{at}> wrote in message news:447bb6d9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Are you
trying to be as =
much an=20
  idiot as mike miller?  Not only are MSDN subscribers an =
insignificant=20
  fraction of the more than 200 million users, they are in no way =
forced. =20
  That is unless you consider people that sign up for any other optional =

  subscription service forced to make that choice.  Or maybe you =
consider=20
  members of other services that require signing in such as ebay or =
amazon.com=20
  as being forced.
   
     In the
mean time, =
Passport has been=20
  extraordinarily successful.
   
  Rich
   
  
    "Geo" <georger{at}nls.net>=20">mailto:georger{at}nls.net">georger{at}nls.net>=20
    wrote in message news:447ba9e8$3{at}w3.nls.net..."Rich"=20
    <{at}> wrote in message news:447b6ce9$1{at}w3.nls.net...=
>>  =20
    There are a great many folks that would like to "fail" as you=20
    claimPassport has with more than 200 million
users.Just =
because=20
    a customer who buys MSDN needs to sign up for a passport =
toaccess their=20
    MSDN online, doesn't make them a "user". Forced don't=20
   
count.Geo.

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