In June 2008, Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president of the server and tools business, said at the company's TechEd conference, "One of the most critical aspects for all business is managing their identities within their organizations." He said that users would be keenly aware of that as online services begin to filter onto corporate networks and users need to federate identities.

Microsoft , a release that was originally slated four months earlier. And despite the importance of the software, Muglia also said at TechEd that the final release was being delayed until the first quarter of 2009.

Now, Microsoft has added another year.

But the extra time will not result in additional features that Microsoft plans to eventually include in ILM, most notably support for CardSpace.

Microsoft's Chirapurath confirmed CardSpace support would not be added to ILM 2.0.