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Microsoft Could Hold Passport to Net

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Microsoft Could Hold Passport to Net

By Dominic Gates

Jul 03 2001 02:51 PM PDT

Rivals fear Redmond's authentication service could make the software giant the one and only centralized power on the Web.

UPDATE The Internet is by its nature adaptive, chaotic and creative, a virtual territory that no one owns and with no central point of control. Could Microsoft change that?

The software giant's competitors think so. Rivals are marshalling arguments to influence upcoming settlement talks with the government and block Microsoft from becoming a de facto centralized power on the Internet.

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