The headline for this release was this:
"46 percent of enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs) surveyed said they were "extremely likely" or "very likely" to implement Microsoft's voice-related systems...."
I'll translate this for you. "People would really like the idea of click to talk on their MS office if it does not cost a lot of money and resources to do it and my network is up to it and it does not create too many security issues...."
Frankly I would have thought it would be higher because the idea of integrating some communications components into MS office including contact integration is compelling (at a certain price) however the reality is implementation of these systems is harder visa vie the value of these systems.
Also:
* 17 percent identified Microsoft as their primary unified communications (UC) applications vendor and, of that group, 94 percent were "extremely likely" or "very likely" to implement Microsoft's voice-related systems.
* 24 percent expect to implement Microsoft's future software-based VoIP system, but half of those will be LCS or OCS users that won't migrate until there is a strong need to upgrade.
* Only 17 percent felt that one IP-PBX vendor offered a better integration with LCS than other IP-PBX vendors.
* Microsoft ranked sixth or seventh out of eight vendors on its ability to provide systems that can support mission-critical voice communications.
Voice-related systems are systems that are linked to the core communications system not the system itself. This is what I expected would be the response.
What I don't like about these questionaires is that they ask about 'ideas' such as 'Would you like to have 30 cup holders in your car?'. Good idea difficult to implement....
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