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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Plumbing &amp; Wiring in a Microsoft World : Unified Communications</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/infoz/archive/tags/Unified+Communications/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Unified Communications</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Microsoft and Cisco - competition or co-operation?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/infoz/archive/2007/08/23/microsoft-and-cisco-competition-or-co-operation.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:49:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1806127</guid><dc:creator>infoz</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/infoz/comments/1806127.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/infoz/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1806127</wfw:commentRss><description>Just watched this enlightening &lt;a title="Microsoft and Cisco CEO interview" href="http://wm.istreamplanet.com/customers/ms/08202007_750k.asx" target="_blank"&gt;Webcast&lt;/a&gt; featuring an interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers, discussing how the two organisations view both competition and co-operation across a range of technology areas including NAP / NAC security and&amp;nbsp;Unified Communications. There's also a couple of great demos from Bob Muglia and Charlie Giancarlo demonstrating the&amp;nbsp;level of interoperability that can be achieved&amp;nbsp;(these start around 46.15 into the Webcast). Recommended viewing with more resources &lt;a title="Microsoft and Cisco resources" href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/aug07/08-20MSFTCisco.mspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; [RH]&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1806127" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/infoz/archive/tags/Unified+Communications/default.aspx">Unified Communications</category></item></channel></rss>