A while ago at Voicecon we announced not only the public beta availability of Office Communications Server 2007 but also some key steps in how we are going to make a major change in how people use telecoms in the future. One important step is the introduction...

This week, I unplugged the telephone on my desk and put it on the other pile of stuff on my desk that I think I should keep but will probably never go back to. The reason for this unusual move is that my number has been moved over to OCS 2007. When you...

Its safe to say, most people know how to act when meeting and speaking with people. Most of us have learnt this etiquette from our parents and in some cases might have even learn this sort of stuff at school. The next step after etiquette I suppose...

I was watching Fifth Gear on my Windows Media Center today and they showed a few clips of next weeks show …. lo and behold ….. I spotted the Windows Mobile Minis at the Gumball 3000 :-) Look out for them on the next episode of Fifth Gear...

Excuse the brevity of this post, just wanted to share my success with you before I am done for the night ;-) Living in a world of hyper connectivity ( thanks Nortel ) sometimes means that ones grip on communications can get out of control. For example...

Being the UC product manager I am lucky enough to be firnished with a few more devices than others in MS, this means I can sometimes take some of them home where normally they would be expected to stay in the office. One such device is the Tanjay which...

You might be asking yourself right now,  why on earth is Mark talking about a monitor when he should be talking about Unified Communications.  If this is the conversation going on in your head then let me refer you to the 'Unified Communications...

I have had a couple of comments recently about my blog post titles ..... hopefully this one is living up the the 'level of quality' people have come to expect ;-) ... anyway ... on with the post :-) Unified Communications encompasses a lot of technologies...

"A Tale of two meeting rooms" Hot of the heels of the first video, I am pleased to say we have another that concentrates more on Office Roundtable. Roundtable is a cracking device which enables people to video conference from a room of their choice...

Last night I received an email from my friend over in Redmond, Todd Biggs, who tells me that they are running a MSN Bot competition . I have talked about bots in the past and regularly discuss the idea with partners and customers when I meet with them...

First of all, let me just say sorry for not posting anything recently. I have been a little busy settling into my new role which has meant the blog has had to take a back burner, hopefully this blog will get me back into the swing of things. Over the...

A number of people have asked me where they can download a copy of the presentations from the Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 that happened at the end of last year.  Now that I am 'back online',  I think this would be a great opportunity to use...

The middle of last week I went away to New York with a few friends for a four days and as such my mailbox didn't get the attention it normally does.  I must admit that I did still sync me email in the morning while recovering (if you want a list...

Once every so often,  Microsoft has a think about what the company will be doing in the future rather than having to focus on the revenue targets and metrics for the next 12 months.  It’s during these times in particular that I remember why...

As you will be reading over the next few days, we have made a number of announcements in the last few hours around our Unified Communications vision and where we will be going over the next few years. A recording will be available here for the next two...

For those of you who have Live Communication Server installed but have not made switch to using Windows Mobile (and why not?) then take a look at the Blackberry website where you can now get hold of a Blackberry client for Live Communication Server. ...

Today we RTM (Released to Manufacturing) Office Communications Server 2007 and its relating technologies (listed below), it all starts today ! Office Communicator 2007 Office Communications Server 2007 Office Live Meeting Console 2007 Communicator Web...

There are a number of blogs I follow (via RSS of course) and the new 'blogger on the block' is Maren Bennette who has years of experience in the telecoms industry and has certainly seen and written about many technologies that have come and gone. The...

Back by popular demand, the Unified Communications team are doing a tour of the UK in 2007 visiting a number of locations up and down the country and we want you to come along ! The tour starts off at Microsoft Campus @ Thames Valley Park in Reading,...

Almost a month ago (28 days to be precise), I put together a post as I was moving my telephone number over to Office Communications Server 2007, I thought it might be a good idea to share with you how things have gone. During the last 28 days, I have...

I spotted this on someone's blog today and wanted to share this with you :-) It appears that in order to communicate with a new younger generation of kids, Santa has had a meeting with the Windows Live Messenger guys at Microsoft and has signed up for...

Just in case you had not heard about it, we recently announced Microsoft Surface , an interesting project that now coming to life after spending the last 5 years being developed within Microsoft. I would recommend spending some time looking round the...

One of the problems with most telephony systems is that small business don't want to spend their time configuring and repatching phones when someone moves from desk to desk. They have enough to worry about without having to become PBX technicians as well...

Take a look here for a great example of how our Windows Mobile devices are not only good for making phone called but are even better to use as a platform for other applications. The article above talks about how Rushcliffe council have armed their...

It probably wont surprise you to know that I get asked this question a fair bit, it probably also wont surprise you to know that the answer is 'talk to the vendor you got the phone from'. Theoretically its possible to get most Windows Mobile 5 phones...