Microsoft Readies VoIP for Office
Microsoft is acquiring a Swiss software company that specializes in voice-over-IP applications with a view to adding such a function to its Office products, the company has acknowledged.
The world’s largest software maker will acquire media-streams.com, a Zurich-based company, for an undisclosed amount, a Microsoft representative said Thursday. The technology Microsoft gains as a result of the deal will help it add VoIP to the Office Live platform, which already supports real-time communications via channels such as instant messaging.
Read the whole article over on PCWorld
Amusing choice of words. “Readies” implies that it might happen in the near future.
But the reality is that MS would be lucky to assimilate, integrate, rebrand, test and get this out for release in the next SIX months. Or two internet/google years.
Another example of trying to sell vapour that MS may or may not release in the future, to try and disuade people to choose another vendors product NOW..
A good example of this was the aquisition of Groove. Purchased mid-year. Still no showing of the groove product line in the roadmap, let alone delivered product.
Another “I’ll wait till its shipping, secure and bugfixed – perhaps as early as a v1.1 release, before even considering it” product..
I have to question the sanity of Redmond Management in squiring yet another piece of technology, when the exact same management cant even deliver its own projects..
—* Bill
Bill,
Always feels good to amuse you.
If you have been following Microsoft’s progress, announcements and products in the RTC space over the last 1 to 1,5 years you’d know this is not falling out of the sky.
Expect this to rock in the very near future 😉