Microsoft;s employing slowdown hasn;t translated to a total employing freeze. Amongst the latest of the Red-Pill poppers is Dick Hardt.Hardt will be the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He's recognized for his get around the “Identity 2.0″ concept (and blog of the same name). Identification 2.0, or digital identity, is focused on using emerging technologies like OpenID to improve cross-vendor authentication and user security.Among Hardt;s other claims to fame: He founded ActiveState, an open-source programming language and anti-spam software vendro that was purchased by Sophos in 2003. According to Wikipedia,
Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Hardt also is “credited along with the port with the Perl programming language to Windows, which, at the time, was highly controversial in the open source community.”Hardt is moving from Vancouver,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Canada,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, to the Redmond area. His new title at Microsoft shall be “Partner Architect.” He described his new role,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, in a posting to the Identification 2.0 site, as:“working on consumer, enterprise and government identification problems. My open source, open web and digital community experience will continue to guide my thinking. For me, this is an opportunity to work about the identity problems I have been toiling over for the last six years,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, but now with massive resources.”Hardt said he will remain chair of Sxipper, a company that makes an identity-management add-on for Firefox.(Hat tip to Nick Katsivelos for the pointer on Hardt.)