Microsoft updates Active Directory roadmap
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Microsoft said Tuesday that it is making additions and changes to Windows Server "Longhorn" and to Internet Explorer 7 to add capabilities to better support security and identity protection.
The announcements came during Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates' keynote presentation to the audience at RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California.
First off, Microsoft is incorporating support for the Identity Metasystem industry initiative into its products. According to a white paper posted on Microsoft's site last May, Identity Metasystem is "a system of systems, which would leverage the strengths of its constituent identity systems, provide interoperability between them, and enable creation of a consistent and straightforward user interface to them all."