Microsoft released the public beta for its Office Communications Server 2007 this week. Here are some key facts about the product. OCS 2007 is the centerpiece of Microsoft’s unified communications ...

Microsoft’s Business Division, announced late last month at the company’s financial analyst conference that Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator code have been completed and that ...

Today Microsoft announced an update to its Office Communicator Mobile product. The update offers users several new features, including the ability to join conference calls with a click of a button; ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a unified communications product road map, demonstrating voice, video and messaging capabilities that it expects to ship in the first half of next year. Jeff Raikes, ...

Microsoft Corp. is launching a qualification program for phones that are compatible with its unified communications products. On Monday, Microsoft will show off 15 phones made by a variety of vendors ...

The firm said it will open the beta to 2,500 IT professionals in the second quarter of 2007. The beta is aimed at business users, who will be able to utilize their existing telephony infrastructure.

Lab Test: Microsoft OCS 2007--Voice Communication for the Next Generation? In lab testing, OCS demostrated scalability, at least for basic call handling, along with some cool new capabilities. But ...

A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft’s new unified communications software as a hosted service. Intermedia on Tuesday will begin offering Microsoft Office Communications Server ...

A year-and-a-half into its strategic unified communications partnership -- the Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) -- Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks today unveiled four new solutions taking ...

Miercom test lab put OCS Release 2 through its paces, and found many worthy additions--with a few caveats. When the Miercom team took a look at a RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released a nearly completed preview version of its next-generation communications server and associated software, which the company has collectively renamed as Lync. This release ...

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