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The Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 product hit “general availability” release status today, meaning that it’s available for commercial deployments.

MIM 2016 is the successor product to Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. It was at a second beta stage back in April, but it now can be downloaded as a 180-day evaluation copy at this page. Getting the commercial product is somewhat unclear as links today on Microsoft’s main page for MIM just go to the trial version. Updated links to get the product apparently will be available “next week,” according to Microsoft’s announcement today.

1. MYSTERY MEAT NAVIGATION

Not a new term in our industry, mystery meat navigation’s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Mystery_meat_navigation) was coined to categorise a usability nightmare that was quite popular in the early days of the web: image-heavy navigation without textual labels to describe each option. Somehow we seem to be OK with unlabelled navigation icons again. A group of five buttons with no descriptive text to tell you what they do? When did that start making sense?