For those of us who've been helping to promote OpenID, today's announcement that Microsoft will work to get OpenID and Cardspace working well together is absolutely no surprise. Kim Cameron, Mike Jones and the rest of the crew have been saying both very rosy things, as well as giving some well-appreciated constructive criticism.
Today, there was an announcement (see Scott Kveton, Dick Hardt, Michael Graves, David Recordon, Johannes Ernst, or Kim Cameron for details) that Janrain, SXIP, Verisign and Microsoft " will collaborate on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace™ to make the Internet safer and easier to use." Let me assure you that from personal experience I know the parties involved all want to make OpenID and Cardspace succeed - the agendas here are amazingly open and transparent.
This is a big deal folks - i encourage you to read those blog entries, rather than have me summarize it here. Apparently Bill G even spoke about openid at the RSA keynote this morning!
Update: Kim claims that I must be clairvoyant for claiming that this was not a surprise. I'm sure it was a lot of work for the parties involved (trust me, I know how resistant to change big organizations can be!) - but it seems like such a win-win for everyone that I guess I couldn't see how it wouldn't have happened one way or another...
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