Microsoft Acquires VOIP Technology

To Provide Real-Time Collaboration Capability Within Office

[martinibuster]

Red Herring reports [redherring.com]:

Microsoft plans to include media-stream’s VoIP technology in Microsoft Office, specifically in the real-time collaboration platform it is building for Office through its Live Communications Server software.

The Redmond software giant said it intends... to create a unified communications system that will encompass email, instant messaging, text messaging, voice telephony, and audio, video, and web conferencing.

...to accelerate its goal of enabling customers, partners, and fellow employees to collaborate in real time through Microsoft Office.

Office needed some fresh ideas. Expanding collaboration capabilities to include voice is maybe the most innovative thing they've done with the Office Suite ever.

[Sanenet]

Fun! It's about time that they kicked Office back into high gear - it's just been sitting there, bloating up, over the last couple of years.