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Microsoft Wednesday will unveil the first public beta of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator client, the heart of its unified communications strategy.
See: Microsoft to the VoIP industry: we're here
Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s business division is slated to make the announcement during his keynote speech at the VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Fla., according to a blog post by the Microsoft Unified Communications & RTC User Group in the United Kingdom.
A document on the Microsoft Web site Presspass, however, hints that availability might not come until later this month. “Microsoft plans to begin public beta-testing later this month of the company's first two products that include enhanced VoIP capabilities,” the document states.
Microsoft also plans to release a four-minute video of Raikes discussing unified communications. On the video Raikes says, “within three years, more than 100 million people will be able to make phone calls from Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, and other Microsoft Office System applications.”
Shell is trying out the software (see related story).
Microsoft is not the only one expected to announce unified communications tools Wednesday. IBM and Cisco have called a press conference to announce a partnership around unified communications.
Microsoft began a private beta of OCS 2007 on Dec. 11 with 2,500 IT pros. The company also hosted a Technology Adoption Program (TAP) Summit that same week for 250 IT representatives from 100 companies.
Final shipment of OCS is slated for mid-2007, with sources saying that the server should be generally available in June.
In December, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s unified communications group, said in a statement, “The convergence of telecom and data networks is happening rapidly. Software will integrate these two worlds, enabling IT managers to deliver new communications possibilities that include VoIP.”
With the release of the OCS 2007 public beta, a wider swath of corporate users will get a chance to test that proclamation.
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VoiceCon: Microsoft to introduce first public beta of Office VoIP productsBy Microsoft Subnet on March 7, 2007, 2:30 pmMicrosoft Wednesday will unveil the first public beta of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator client, the heart of its unified communications...
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