Nortel and Microsoft forge an alliance … good news for telecommuters?
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Couple bits from C|Net News.com this morning on the Microsoft—Nortel alliance announced today. I first heard this on the news this morning (yes, I do watch TV news, generally when I’m eating my Cheerios circular oat-based cereal) and I turned to Lorraine and said, "This could be great for telecommuters.". Why? First here are some snippets from the News.com article:
Microsoft has been pushing the idea of unified communications–enabling people to integrate all their business communications applications: telephony, instant messaging, e-mail and others–into a single platform. With a central platform, people can choose who contacts them, and when. They can also determine over which type of communications they get contacted–whether it be e-mail, phone or IM.
Microsoft has already announced some unified-communications products. Earlier this year, it combined its Exchange unit with the real-time communications group that handles its Live Communications Server for instant messaging and presence management–software that detects whether you are online. The company has also said the next version of the Exchange e-mail server will be able to handle voice mail and allow workers to check e-mail by phone.
Unified messaging (all your calls, voicemails, IM, e-mail) has been one of those Holy Grails of business people. Imagine having everything in one place? Cool, eh? Now, combine this with a remote VoIP system and you can have your office on your desk at home. I’ve done this with a Mitel VoIP solution and that just covered calls and voicemail. With remote VoIP, unified messaging, and a broadband connection, well you can be more connected with the office. That’s a good thing, right? ;-).
Tags: VoIP, Nortel, Microsoft, unified messaging
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