Microsoft Delays Stirling Security Suite

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's long-awaited integrated security suite, codenamed Stirling, has been delayed by months and will now not be available until the fourth quarter 2009. According to Microsoft, the delay is due to the further development of the firm's behaviour based technology, the Dynamic Signature Service, 'to help deliver more comprehensive endpoint protection for zero-day attacks,' and efforts to add interoperability with third-party solutions, as per customer requests. When completed, the suite will combine a number of tools, such as the ISA Server and multiple Forefront products."

Comments

Priorities!

[grub]

Perhaps they realized that a good code audit and general cleanup would eliminate the need for much of the bolt-on "Stirling".

The Big Switch

[XaviorPenguin]

Since their defunct Microsoft Live OneCare is leaving in June of 2009, this Stirling is replacing it. It kind of makes one wonder if this will fail just like OneCare did.

Re:OneCare for Business?

[Anonymous Coward]

it's not their main focus. When you've got such big priorities as Windows

This is nonsense! They make an OS so security is their business.

MS need to secure their software, and all these bottom feeds like Mcafee and Symantec need to die.

Here we go again...

[hyades1]

Why do I get the feeling that using this is going to be like half killing yourself with a steady intake of chemotherapy drugs just because some day you might get cancer?

Its what they get for the layoffs

[anjilslaire]

Maybe if they didn't cut the 1400 employees and thousands of vendors the last couple of months they'd be able to have the staffing to actually finish this security suite on time. I imagine the other 3600 will fall after Win7 RTMs...