Microsoft: Real-time requires open systems
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is increasingly preaching the gospel of open systems and Web-based software -- especially with real-time collaboration.
Take its Office Communicator system, the platform for its MSN Instant Messaging application, as well as its Live Communications Server 2005, which supports its real-time collaboration using the Web. The company today announced a release to manufacturing of its Web-based enterprise communications client, Office Communicator Web Access.
Based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, otherwise known as Ajax, the RTM release is designed to help workers access not only their own IM platform, but also communicate with other workers across different IM platforms and enterprise networks.