New Direction
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 to fix the current malaise of identity related issues ... and what happens if we do.
As always, I welcome your thoughts, ideas, questions and flames.
Okay, onwards into the Metaverse!
