The Wall Street Journal had a write up on this and after reading through it I did not see much in the way of improvement. It seems like the main focus of Micro$oft is to integrate their products with phone systems which can already be done. The article talked about dialing from Office apps and voicemail in email which can all be accomplished in * and maybe in other products like Cisco and Avaya for a price.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)</b> <<a href="mailto:francesco@fampeeters.com">francesco@fampeeters.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, June 27, 2006 0:26, shadowym said:<br>> They have been talking about this for awhile. If you look at the real<br>> time<br>> and embedded operating system world they have not really done so well over<br>
> the many years they have been trying. Just throwing money at the problem<br>> has<br>> never worked for them in the past either.<br><br>Perhaps because people expect devices like that to Just Work(tm),<br>something Embedded Linux is better known for than Embedded Windows is?...
<br><br>> The Asterisk community has nothing to worry about in the near term if ever<br>> IMHO.<br>><br><br>Unless they buy Digium... That'd give them a serious amount of code to<br>obfuscate and hide in closed source products! ;-)
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