[esikich]

That's fine, but your inexperience with large companies that are MS's bread and butter doesn't really give you any credibility here. It's the standard for a reason.

[hobonation]

Can concur. I hate them with a passion, but corps love them, and I hate to say it... with good reason.

They're the only player in the Identity-Document-Email-VM-Storage space that's even remotely unified.