Here’s why Windows Live ID (ne Passport) sucks:
Fundamentally, a login service is amazingly simple… an ID and password are presented, and the system responds with some credentials authenticating the user or denying the user. Yeah, there’s some state, but that’s fairly easily replicated, so there should be tons of boxes with said state so if one goes down, another can pick things up.
The above error was hit at about 1:30 AM on a Saturday (yeah, whatever), and I submitted the request twice. Sigh. And to think I was trying to log in to HealthVault, Microsoft’s newest release to store Health information, to check it out. Oh well.
Come on guys… Passport has been around for what, ten years now? You’re not going to beat anyone in services if you can’t ensure that simple services don’t block people from getting access because they’re down!