eBay to Drop Passport, .Net Support

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Ed Oswald
Ed Oswald
Published: Dec 30, 2004
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsofts Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that “once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information.”

The announcement came with practically no warning; however, in recent months, it had become much more difficult to sign up for alerts through Microsofts .NET services as the pages to do so were buried on eBays site.

Users still wishing to receive alerts will have to sign up for eBays own mobile phone alerts or the eBay Toolbar, which will display .NET-like alerts when the users auction is about to end, is outbid, or is the winner.

In recent months, eBay has also made its service available to third-party developers through “Certified eBay Solutions.”

Microsoft was disappointed with eBays decision, but vowed to continue to push its .NET framework as a better method for business-to-consumer interaction.

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Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald is a freelance writer whose work appears on several technology sites as well as on Demand Studios. He has been writing since 2004 and graduated with a degree in Journalism from Temple University.

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