Microsoft to release identity product

Court to scammer: Give up your house or go to jail; Take two: Nominum tries hosted DNS Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Quest Software Check out Quest Connect: Virtual Event Interact with identity and access experts and your peers without leaving your computer! On October 21-22, access white papers, demos and webcasts on topics like making single sign-on work in the real world and becoming friends with your identity and access management framework. Registration is free! Sign up today. Click to continue Spotlight Story Microsoft to release identity product My primary interest at last week's European version of The Experts Conference was Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Identity Manager 2010. If you haven't been following closely, you might know this soon to release product as Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) "2". 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