Melanie Turek is reporting about VoiceCon and Microsoft’s RTC efforts epsecialy around IP Telephonie. Innovations continue at warp speed; I am quite sure Microsoft will be a leader by any measure in this space in a short period from now …
…Until recently, Microsoft was not a serious contender in the real-time communications dashboard arena. They would tell you otherwise, of courseand many other analysts would, toobut the reality is Microsoft had a PC-based presence server (Live Communications Server), an IM client (Communicator) and a Web conferencing service (Live Meeting).
A week after VoiceCon 2006, however, and my how things have changed. If you didnt know better, you might think Microsoft was a *voice* vendor, the way the press releases were coming out of Redmond during the show. Deals with multiple telephony vendors effectively promise to give Communicator soft phone capabilitiesand turn the client into a real-time communications dashboard from which users can launch online and telephony chat. …
[Via Collaboration Loop]
