Microsoft last week quietly showed off software for embedding its Web-based Windows Live ID authentication services within Windows applications. Windows Live ID is the successor to Microsoft Passport, a hosted service for verifying a person’s name and password for logging onto Web servers. <\/p>\n
Later this year, Microsoft will release a beta version of a software developer’s kit (SDK) for making the Windows Live ID service function within a Windows application, said Lynn Ayres, program manager on the Windows Live ID team. <\/p>\n
Right now, Windows Live ID authentication services are designed to work with Microsoft’s Web-based applications such as Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger. <\/p>\n
With the developer’s kit, called Windows Live ID Client SDK, Microsoft is seeking to create closer integration between its Web-based hosted services and “rich client” Windows applications, Ayres said. <\/p>\n
For example, a developer could write a Windows application that has a button for buying from an e-commerce site. The Windows Live ID authentication window could pop up from within the Windows application to verify an end user’s security credentials. <\/p>\n
“This SDK makes it easier to write new client applications that understand Windows Live IDs and supports the sharing of authentication state across multiple rich clients and browsers,” according to a Windows Live ID white paper published earlier this year. <\/p>\n
In addition, Microsoft is working on another development kit to connect Web site operators to Microsoft’s Windows Live ID service. That SDK will use standards-based protocols, including the Simple Object Access Protocol, according to the company. <\/p>\n
Client-server-services
\nAt the TechEd conference, Microsoft offered a few more details of its strategy to make more money from Windows Live services, in part by relying on third-party developers. <\/p>\n
In a keynote speech, Ray Ozzie, who replaced Bill Gates as chief software architect last week, described how Microsoft-hosted services, such as Web search and network authentication, could be used by IT professionals and software developers. <\/p>\n
These online services can be linked to create “mashups,” such as a real estate listing application that uses a mapping service to display locations. <\/p>\n
Ozzie indicated that Microsoft Live services are being designed to complement Microsoft’s on-premise Windows-based software, rather than replace it with browser-based applications. <\/p>\n
“There are always extremists who say every application will be accessed by a browser and everything will be moving to the computing cloud and that enterprise data centers will go away,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Microsoft is taking a very pragmatic approach, a seamless, blended client-server-services approach…where services complement and extend Windows and Office applications to the Internet,” he said. <\/p>\n
Over time, Microsoft will release more application programming interfaces and tools to encourage third-party developers to write Live applications that tie into Windows, company executives said. <\/p>\n
For example, the company earlier this month released an SDK for writing mini-applications called gadgets. <\/p>\n
Once developers write a gadget for aggregating an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, for instance, the gadget can run on both the Windows Live site and on the Windows Vista Sidebar. <\/p>\n
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