It used to be versions were about feature sets. If you added a small feature to a program you'd increment the minor version, if you added big features you'd release a major update. The idea of having versions increase on specific dates seem weird.

The problem is even OpenID 2.0 doesn't work. People don't have a clue why they should be entering a URL in a login form, what that URL comes from, etc. It's much simpler for them to enter their email address, and have the site redirect to Google Login. Of course there has to be a way for the Google version and the OpenID people to get together and improve the standard itself.