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. 
5 comments
February 7, 2008 at 7:53 am
February 7, 2008 at 12:03 pm
missburrows
Once again, our choice to use OpenId exclusively for treasurelicous.com has proved to be a smart one.
Welcome, Google, Microsoft, Verisign, et al., to the OpenId party. Go ahead and grab a drink, the pizza is in the other room.
February 15, 2008 at 9:26 am
Khürt
This is great news. I have started to talk about OpenID within the organization with the Identity and Access Engineering group at my employer and this announcement is right on tim.
March 7, 2008 at 6:30 am
Grant Alan Friedline
It looks like everyone is quick to be an OpenID provider, but not an OpenID consumer. I hope that trend changes.
March 7, 2008 at 9:30 am
As we get enough chickens, eggs will likely start to appear.