PDC has come and gone, and Microsoft's identity landscape has changed. New products emerged, services appeared or underwent profound transformations: but the remarkable thing is that all elements, none excluded, are part of a single,company-wide, consistent strategy that aims at putting the user in control of his/her identities . Many words will be spent about those products, singularly and as a whole. After all, a lot of people waited a long time for this moment: I know I did. I can't tell you the joy of seeing this coming together so nicely in the last months! Here I'll just give you a short vademecum the various products and services we unveiled last week during PDC, without going too much in details. As you go through my little tourist guide, always remember my disclaimer. However in the interest of clarity, in case somebody would be confused by my little landscaping stunt up there ("omg he's out of control"), below you can find the official slide that was included in each and every identity session @ PDC and shows the breadth of our identity S+S portfolio. All of those technologies were described in Kim's & your truly's session , and they all had a role in the big demo in the same session . "Geneva" Server Ah, if I'd have a coin for every time I've heard conjectures about Microsoft eventually coming out with an "STS product", whatever flavor people gave to the term at the moment, I'd need a much bigger piggy and I'd sprout my very
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