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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Announced!Today, we announced Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at VoiceCon Amsterdam. I won't go into all the details, for more information, check out the Press Release and Video from Stephen Elop.
This is an exciting release for us, almost one year to the day since the unified communications launch in October 2007, where Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes keynoted and predicted major transformation in the communications industry. They predicted that software would be a key driver of innovation in communications, that unified communications would take precedence over silos of communications technologies, and that the industry would undergo a fundamental 90 degree shift from vertically integrated to horizontal structured ecosystems.
Since then, much of the talk in the industry is about software powering communications; in fact, many former hardware players are acquiring or setting up software divisions. For the first time in our surveys, we are seeing unified communications taking over VOIP as an business investment priority, because enterprises realize that VOIP is only one part of the unified communications solution and that investing in silos makes the end goal much harder to realize down the road. This still has not caught on for many people, who will put the word "unified" in front of everything as if that really makes it unified. Our belief is that you need a single infrastructure and most importantly a single user experience across the UC workloads for it to be really unified, but at least the transformation is headed in the right direction. And finally, there is an industry transformation under way with new players one would not expect to be involved in communications entering, and many others whose ownership and potential mandate has been reset. These are indeed exciting times to be in communications.
Meanwhile, OCS has continued to grow tremendously. We won some six industry awards for "Innovation of the Year" or "VOIP Product of the Year". Analysts tell us that they cannot have a conversation with a large customer about voice without Microsoft coming up. Several of our customers are on their way to 100,000+ users on IM and Presence, and customers like Shell International are leapfrogging an entire generation of IP-PBX technology to move straight to unified communications with OCS; Shell is already with 5,000 users on OCS voice. We have several thousand partners trained on OCS and launched new certifications on UC, OCS and Voice specialization. Internally at Microsoft, tens of thousands of people are using Communicator, the USB peripherals, Tanjay, Live Meeting and Roundtable on a daily basis - Microsoft employees are a tough crowd, but already people just take these capabilities for granted. And business is great too, we are doubling our business year on year!
This new release is a major milestone for us as it brings new voice capabilities that take us much closer to full enterprise voice capability, and in particular, make OCS a pretty complete solution for mobile and remote workers. Many of our customers actually start deploying OCS voice to these workers first, taking a load off their existing PBXs and foregoing the need to upgrade or buy new infrastructure. There are also major advances in desktop collaboration and audio conferencing. OCS now offers audio (including PSTN dial in bridges), video and web conferencing in a single solution. One feature I am very excited about for example is desktop sharing, which allows users to share their desktop to internal or external participants with just one click rather than setting up a full web conferencing session. And finally, we are introducing new tools and APIs for developers to build communications enabled applications. This is something we are adopting internally at Microsoft, for example, our attendant console in this release was built using our development SDK and APIs. Any ISV could easily a similar application to suit their needs.
The future for us is looking great! As the economy continues to sour, our message is that customers can save money by investing in software and forego expensive capital expenditure projects. Our roadmap is focused on delivering true unified communications, with more than just a full voice solution. And the team and leadership are in place raring to go.
We will be launching the product officially on February 3rd 2009 in a Virtual Event featuring Stephen Elop. You can find out more and register from the new Office Communications Server website at www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver. Please do join us as we showcase our vision, our product, our customers and partners. Comentarios (2)Para agregar un comentario, inicia sesión con tu cuenta de Windows Live ID (si utilizas Hotmail, Messenger o Xbox LIVE, ya tienes una cuenta de Windows Live ID). Iniciar sesión ¿No tienes una cuenta de Windows Live ID? Regístrate
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