Microsoft ushers in Unified Communications era
eWeek | at | by Mike
The vendor-centric PBX era is behind us and the new unified communications era is upon us, bringing innovative phones and devices, interoperable applications, an open communications software platform, and an industry-standard IT infrastructureall from multiple vendors, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees of the launch event for its unified communications software here Oct. 16.
Microsoft is taking its software and applying it to phone calls, Gates told the several hundred attendees attending the launch event.