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Microsoft have unveiled their vision, technology road map and partner framework for unified communications at a strategy event in San Francisco. Microsoft's approach to unified communications will break down today's silos of e-mail, instant messaging, mobile and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony, and audio-, video- and webconferencing.
The press releases announces a new name for Live Communications Server ... Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 is an enterprise-grade server that provides the backbone for all real-time communications within Microsoft Office. Presence awareness, IM service, peer-to-peer audio and video, application sharing, and collaboration all depend on it. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, the next version of LCS, will add on-premise Web conferencing and the ability for Communicator to make and receive voice calls.