It shouldn’t be a surprise that our No.1 most-read story involved Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft reportedly is interested in acquiring Mandiant, which rebranded from FireEye last fall. Both Microsoft and Mandiant declined to comment. But Forrester’s Jeff Pollard didn’t hesitate and that’s why he made waves this week.

“Mandiant spent years locked into all the FireEye ecosystem of technologies, and only just opened up its services to non-FireEye technologies in the last year or so,” he said. “Mandiant finds itself with strong services offerings, but needs to play catch-up. Expanding its stable of intellectual property, marketing and sales efforts for the ‘new Mandiant,’ and scaling services on a global basis are expensive endeavors.”

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