Right - to rearange your words . .
"AD is the Big Ball of LEAD!!! We were not to believe Cheese."
That few businesses need AD is not Microsoft's problem - their problem is they haven't been able to convince these businesses that they want AD.
The large number of companies that announced complex $30,000 (and up)software tool suites to "help ease the pain of migration to Active Directory", and the many reviews these tools got in the tech press did not help Microsoft's marketing efforts one bit.
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