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We’ve just had a visit from some Microsoft guys who were going over their new offerings, and on paper it looks very impressive. They seem to be moving to fill in all the holes which previously required 3rd party applications, and it all integrates nicely with existing MS infrastructures.

One of the most interesting things is that they have finally come up with their own AV solution, which uses multiple existing engines plus one of their own. I’m also pretty happy that there is finally an IPS solution (built into TMG, which is roughly the replacement to ISA). They are also jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon and providing outsourced Exchange spam filtering and mail archiving.

All this stuff is either out now or coming out pretty soon, so it will be interesting to see if it holds up to competition once it gets in the wild.