Its VoIP phone announcement yesterday represented a significant step towards Microsoft's IP telephony goals. Nine manufacturers unveiled 15 IP telephones that will be compatible with Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft's software for providing IP PBX functions over a corporate network. The manufacturers included ASUSTek Computer, GN Netcom, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Polycom, Samsung, Tatung and ViTELiX
This means companies using Microsoft's phone solution won't be stuck with headsets. The announcement came just a couple of months after the software vendor made a big deal about a study — which it had commissioned — showing that its soft phones provided better call quality than some Cisco desk phones. Taken at face value, that might give you the impression that Microsoft saw the future mainly in terms of headsets and soft clients running on PCs. Yesterday's announcement proved otherwise.
Microsoft has been touting OCS 2007 as a large enterprise solution, complete with predictions that 100 million Office users will be using click to call within three years. But at least one observer thinks it's looking at another target in the meantime.
This means companies using Microsoft's phone solution won't be stuck with headsets. The announcement came just a couple of months after the software vendor made a big deal about a study — which it had commissioned — showing that its soft phones provided better call quality than some Cisco desk phones. Taken at face value, that might give you the impression that Microsoft saw the future mainly in terms of headsets and soft clients running on PCs. Yesterday's announcement proved otherwise.
Microsoft has been touting OCS 2007 as a large enterprise solution, complete with predictions that 100 million Office users will be using click to call within three years. But at least one observer thinks it's looking at another target in the meantime.
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