Exclusive - Updates at MSN
ActiveWin | at | by Mike
Most of MSN's sites and services are undergoing hardware upgrades in preparation for MSN.NET. There is also a major bandwidth upgrade planned for next month which will increase the total potential thuroughput from MSN's sites and services to 5 Gigabits per second. MSN's long range plans show total thuroughput going up to 12 Gigabits per second by 2004.
Microsoft Passport will be undergoing their first major upgrade to v2.0 in 10 days, the 26th. There should not be a major visible change, as most of the enhancements are in the backend. The only visible changes will be to sign-in/sign-out designs, as well as your Passport member services pages where you can edit your personal information. Other visible changes are only visible to Windows XP users. You will also see Microsoft Passport rolled out in the next few weeks at a number of third party sites...which will dump their own authentication and wallet system in exchange with Passport.