http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1009_11-6127915.html
I still don’t get what it is …
Client software that you can install on a central machine and then distribute as your organisation grows – that makes no sense? A set of filters you put on your incoming streams that looks for malware? A (mere) virus scanner? What is it? All of the above plus whatever? An LDAP server? Does it actually do authorisation and have a bunch of other stuff to keep viruses and so on at bay, hence confusing authorisation with protection? Or is it just a load of acronyms hiding a hodge-podge of things under the Microsoft banner so you can buy them all together in one package?
I also did’t like the word “integrated” there – that’s one of the huge problems with Windows as it is, compromise one thing, you’ve compromised everything – all part of the fundamentally flawed architecture in the first place. Everything uses the IE DLL’s – compromise them and everything is compromised. It’s not like modular software and interfaces are a new idea, but what do I know?