Today Microsoft, Yahoo,  IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as corporate board members. This big news for OpenID. With Yahoo and Google becoming OpenID Providers earlier this year, this is really shaping up to be the year of OpenID.

First coverage I see of the announcement is at CNN Money. That’s funny.

Updated 6:57AM

Mike Jones from Microsoft blogged here about. Interesting to see the press release up at Microsoft’s PressPass with a quote from Google.