Simon Willison’s Weblog

8th March 2008 - Link Blog

Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication. Would make life a lot simpler if they just supported OAuth, but at least they include sample code in Python, Ruby and PHP.

Posted 8th March 2008 at 3:19 pm

Recent articles

Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer - 20th October 2026
Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 - 12th October 2026
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice - 9th October 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5 - 7th October 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 8th March 2008.

live 2 liveid 1 microsoft 134 oauth 54 php 191 python 1,292 ruby 76

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe