Microsoft’s Unified Communications Strategy ???
Mary Jo Foley has a story that teases out the direction of Microsoft’s Unified Communications plans. On the heals of major moves by Cisco this is getting interesting.
Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group, hinted on September 22 about what’s coming in a canned Q&A on Microsoft’s Web site. Pall said:
“(W)e’re exploring ways to infuse unified communications into new business applications, workflow technologies and content management.
“In addition, customers should look for more focus on mobility, spanning mobile messaging and mobile telephony. They should also expect to see more comprehensive conferencing solutions than before and the ability to extend OCS telephony beyond remote and mobile workers. “
On the cell-phone side of the house, Microsoft is working on a set of Communications Server services for Windows Mobile phones. These services are codenamed “Rouge,” according to Mary Jo’s sources.
The big question is how Microsoft will credibily wrap up all the needed services - to me I’m looking at how they handle video. Certainly Google will have something to say about it.
On the Unified Communications side here is a podcast that I did with Eric Swift at the UC Summit this past May. With Android being announced today here is Eric’s of Microsoft’s view on competing with Google.
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