Gartner recognizes Microsoft for its 'corporate telephony' platform

Microsoft is officially recognized as an enterprise telephony company - it has made it in the Gartner Group's Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony 2008, remarks the Unified Communications Strategies blog. Gartner has placed Microsoft in the visionaries quadrant with other companies that have 'completeness of vision' but it still has worked to do on 'abilities to execute.'

Marty Parker writing in the UC Strategies blog comments:

While some may say this is bad for Microsoft, since they will look weak in the telephony group, it seems to me that this is ideal for them!  It says that Gartner sees Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 as addressing the future directions of Corporate Telephony, but isn’t ready to do it all.  That’s great.  I’ve argued before that Microsoft does not want to win as a leader in the PBX market, they want to win as a leader in the “communications” market, where their software can make major improvements in business operations, not just simply replace a phone.

Microsoft was placed in the "leaders' section of Gartner's 2007 magic quadrant for unified communications.

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