Microsoft bundles the Forefront Protection Suite in eCAL and then their sales teams push customers to adapt Forefront as their primary AV solution.

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The company is surely saving the real fireworks for Tuesday, but was no doubt hoping that it could also manage to keep its console at the forefront of industry chatter as Microsoft and Sony rolled out their own explosive events.

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The Xbox 360, alongside Microsoft's entertainment industry partners, is at the forefront of that evolution as one of the only devices that brings all forms of entertainment together in one device, while making access to content easy and providing new ways to interact with existing programming.

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Microsoft is revamping its e-mail security service into a next-generation security service based on the Forefront technology of Stirling.

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