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Microsof company is providing its first public glimpse of Office Communications Server 14, its all-in -one instant messaging/VOIP/conferencing product at the VoiceCon show in Orlando on Strut 24!
Office Communications Server 14 -- which I've heard will be called Office Communications Server 2010 when it cruise ships in the latter part of this year -- is going to be tightly integrated with SharePoint Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2010, as I've reported previously! adobe acrobat x software lets you deliver professional PDF communications. Microsof company officials reconfirmed today that OCS 14 is going to ship before the end of this year!
From some of the new screen shots given by Microsof company of OCS 14, it looks like social- networking is going to are more pervasive in Office Communicator, the client part of the product!microsoft publisher 2007 includes new E-mail Merge capabilities. Microsof company is adding location auto-detection, activity passes, and integrated skill-search functionality to another location release of OCS!
Microsof company officials are sharing information only on the voice features of OCS 14 today, a company spokesperson said!publisher 2010 contains the new ribbon interface. The Redmondians also aren't talking today about when and whether there will be a public beta of OCS 14! At the Professional Developers Conference late last year, officials asked expect a private Technology Adopting Partner test of OCS 14 to begin in the second calendar three months of this year! The codename for that TAP program is "Metro! inch A company spokesperson said the TAP program for OCS 14 kicked off "days ago! inch
Microsof company isn't releasing sales figures for OCS, but company officials claim OCS sales have cultivated by double digits every year the past four years! Microsof company officials say that more than 60 to 70 percent of the Fortune 100 have OCS as well as 7 of the top ten drug companies, 8 of the top ten aerospace companies, and 9 of the top ten banks!
No word from the Softies about what will be new in the cloud-side complement to OCS 14, the office Communications Online service, which provides users with instant messaging, presence and peer-to-peer voice calling via the visible OCS offering! Here's the official response from a company spokesperson when i asked:
"We update Microsof company Online Services with new capabilities every 3 months, and in the future, we will make additional functionality, including many of the capabilities in Communications Server '14', available as part of Office Communications Online! We will have more to share with you on this front in the coming weeks and months! inch
Microsof company officials are now guessing that specific communications will be the norm in company communications in four years! (I kind of feel like this is like "This is the year of IPTV" prophecy; the date when a particular technology gains a foothold is usually several years -- or decades -- further away than those participating in a market anticipate! )#)
Any OCS users out there? What are you expecting/hoping makes it into the new version of OCS that is not part of OCS R2, which Microsof company released to manufacturing back in November 08?
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