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Whats so different about Microsoft Unified Communications?
22 September 06 11:56 PM | markdea | 4 Comments   
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 Read More...
Unified Communications Product Group start their own blog
22 August 06 05:10 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
One of the great things that has occurred in the last year or so is that the product groups over in Redmond have started blogging. Not only has this given the product group a public face but it has also meant that the product team can get feedback from Read More...
Microsoft & Nortel - Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA)
19 July 06 11:27 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
One of the great things about our Unified Communications solution, both current and future, is that it can work with the existing infrastructure that is currently in place, this means that all of the money and time spent on installing a PBX is not wasted Read More...
Partner Unified Communications site now Live!
13 July 06 01:04 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
I wanted to bring to your attention a new Unified Communications site designed especially for partners. It can be found at http://partner.microsoft.com/uc ! Almost every time I talk to a partner about our Unified Communications platform, they normally Read More...
The Power of Unified
08 July 06 10:32 AM | markdea | 1 Comments   
Since the announcement at the end of June, a lot of people has asked me what exactly is Unified Communications and more importantly, where can I find more. For most people, I have sat them down and explained the idea to them including taking about the Read More...
RTC Wave 12 Private Beta
06 July 06 09:35 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Recently we had a number of announcements around our roadmap for Unified Communications, Redmond is now looking for nominations for the 'RTC Wave 12 Private Beta'. If you are interested then email me and I will let you know more :-) Read More...
Customising the 'You are over your quota' message in Exchange
30 June 06 09:07 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
I am sure a number if you have seen this message before, well it’s now possible to customise the message to include more terse wording or perhaps the option to pay money into the IT administrators Paypal account to a bigger mailbox ;-). First of all I Read More...
Skype is bad MMM-Kay
28 June 06 09:08 AM | markdea | 1 Comments   
Well ... not 'bad' ... just a little sneeky :-) Recently I had a conversation with Allister Frost (the artist formally known as Exchange PM) about the technology behind the Skype platform that most people don’t tend to know about, it resulted in posting Read More...
Unified Communications Announcements
26 June 06 07:24 PM | markdea | 3 Comments   
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 Read More...
Taking Unified Communications to a new level
08 June 06 10:44 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Steve Clayton sent me this article a while back and I thought I would make a short post about it. The article talks about the final balance between partner and competitor with our colleagues at companies like Cisco and Avaya but also includes a mention Read More...
More announcements on Exchange Messaging Security
07 June 06 05:08 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Yesterday we launched a new line of e-mail security products based on the Sybari products we acquired a while back. Available via volume licensing on July 1 st and as a 90 day free trial from the Microsoft website, you will be able to buy a ‘three pack’ Read More...
Digital Rum
24 May 06 05:01 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
At the end of last month I had the pleasure of talking with these guys and I must say that they really do have some great solutions and are doing some brilliant work with Live Communication Server. First of all is ‘Corporate Mobile Messenger’ Read More...
Invasion of the Robots!
17 May 06 09:56 AM | markdea | 4 Comments   
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. Read More...
MSN Messenger goes 'retro'
09 May 06 06:12 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Although for quite some time you have been able to make pc-to-pc calls on MSN Messenger and pc-to-phone calls, the big problem with this is that is restricts you to using a clunky headset and microphone and near the PC at the time you want to make the Read More...
Microsoft Speech Server 2007 Beta !
09 May 06 05:51 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   
Today we opened the public beta site for Microsoft Speech Server 2007, if you want to know more then take a look here . Speech Server has been available before in previous versions but this is a significant release as it includes support for VoiceXML Read More...
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