[Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP

[Tom Lynn]

The avaya softphone (an entitlement in recent versions of the PBX)  will
dial from outlook and allows clicking of phone numbers from within web based
content.  I'm not sure it works from other office apps, though.

On 6/27/06, Rodney G. McDuff <mcduff at its.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Brian Capouch wrote:
> > It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how
> > many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot.  The bean counters
> > smell some money, and their OS franchise is waning:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html
> >
> Its all bad news interoperability wise.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christian Schlatter <ch at schlatter.net>
> To: 'tf-vvc' <tf-vvc at terena.nl>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:38:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: [tf-vvc] Microsoft sends message on 'unified messaging'
> Cătălin Meiroşu wrote:
> > fyi
> > (apologies to those that have already read about it)
> >
> > Microsoft sends message on 'unified messaging'
> > "The software maker on Monday announced its vision for so-called unified
> > messaging, which brings together e-mail, instant messaging, telephony
> > and Web conferencing. It also introduced a series of products coming
> > over the next year that should help achieve this. The goal is to free
> > workers from having to guess which mode is the best to use to reach
> > co-workers and others. [...]"
>
> Although MS claims for SIP standards compliance, their UM products are
> still using proprietary protocols. I can't register my x-lite with an
> LCS or use the MS communicator together with my SER proxy. So it's all
> or nothing, either you're an MS shop from A to Z or you can't really use
> their UM offerings.
>
> Tom Keating has written a nice article about that:
>
> http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft/microsoft-office-communications-server-2007.asp
>
>
>
> Christian
>
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