Comments on: Cutting Edge Microsoft UC http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/connectivity/cutting-edge-microsoft-uc/ News and information about Unified Communications Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:48:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: S3kur3 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/connectivity/cutting-edge-microsoft-uc/#comment-43 S3kur3 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:00:20 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/connectivity/cutting-edge-microsoft-uc/#comment-43 Well- as of this past Monday, Bill Gates is out of the picture. BUT- the ‘matter of time’ has already passed. Microsoft already developed Response Point, an SMB / SOHO- and potentially home- phone system providing VoIP, presence, voicemail on email, and other functionality.

]]> By: PhoneTool http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/connectivity/cutting-edge-microsoft-uc/#comment-42 PhoneTool Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:55:44 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/connectivity/cutting-edge-microsoft-uc/#comment-42 On reading this post I started to reflect on parallels between the history of the PC and developments in the IP PBX world. In the same way as Thomas Watson couldn’t imagine a worldwide market for more than a handful of computers, I’m sure many of us struggle to contemplate a VoIP PBX in every home. It now seems to me that the idea is not so absurd (but then I have a teenage daughters).

Cisco and friends are cleaning up the enterprise VoIP phone systems market while Digium and friends are looking after the SMBs. It’s only a matter of time before a Bill Gates look alike emerges with a must-have an IP PBX for every SOHO operator and household.

In fact I’m quietly confident that MS Office 2010 will include an IP PBX module. As we know, history has a way of repeating itself.

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