Microsoft unveils desktop communications client

Integrated IM, EMail, VOIP

[grelmar]

AP Article on MyWay [apnews.myway.com]

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) on Tuesday said it is launching a desktop application that aims to seamlessly integrate e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and Internet-based calling.

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Microsoft plans to debut the product, code-named "Istanbul," sometime in the first half of 2005

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...interoperability between its instant messaging program and users of the other two leading services, AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.

whoa...

If they pull it off, Killer Ap

[digitalv]

I heard it used to be called Constantinople.

:P

[digitalv]

Oh come on, no one got that?

[ogletree]

Yes Istanbul used to be called Constantinople is that what you mean.

[grelmar]

Actually, when I read that, I was thinking of the song.

Why does Constantinople get the works?

That's nobodies busines but the Turks.

(I wasn't going to reply originally.)