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Microsoft Nearly Finished With Windows Live ID Deployment: Page 2 of 2

Program manager Lynn Ayres is responsible for the design of the user interface for the Windows Live ID Sign-in and would release details in the next few days, Chow said.

To date, Windows Live ID has mostly been a re-branding of Passport, Joe Wilcox, analyst for JupiterResearch, said.

"(Passport) is in transition," Wilcox said. Eventually, the new authentication service will enable a person to "sign in once to sign in everywhere."

"But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works," Wilcox said.