Bob,

>I really resent having to sign up for Passport just to exercise my privledges as a MSDN Universal Subscriber.

I'm curious about what's your beef with getting a Passport account? Since you can control how much information you put into the account and can then control which Passport-enabled sites get to see which parts of that info, is it a suspicion that MS will somehow illegally or unjustly use your info beyond what you have authorized?

Or is it just not wanting to be forced into doing a certain thing to use their software and resources?

Dave