Days after showcasing Microsoft’s fledgling Connected Services Framework, which are Web 2.0 tools for telecom service providers, Microsoft is toutiing its first customer. Japan mobile operator KDDI will use the Microsoft Connected Services Framework to let users send/share e-mail and documents to other users and between their PCs, cell phones. This will be the first of ongoing software-as-a-service applications, the two companies said.
“The first SaaS application will be built on Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration, a carrier-grade platform that offers enterprise-class e-mail and document-sharing services to corporate customers. Subscription is a monthly fee-based model, covering mobile and fixed-line communications and the SaaS application.” Read more.
Combine this news with the Network World’s recent test of Microsoft IP PBX equipment, and Microsoft starts looking like the next Cisco.
