re: VoIP as you are!

Ewan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:23:13 GMT

It's like, "VoIP is all about software, stupid!"

I think we're getting better at making this clear: at the end of the day, Microsoft is a software company and by getting into VoIP territory, we're making it a software business rather than a proprietary, "hardware" thing. I say "hardware" though in recent years, a lot of telecoms kit has largely been commodity-like hardware in a grey box but with proprietary software. What the industry seems to be doing now (and MS is active in that movement) is in making the software bit more standardised and helping make the hardware less grey box and more standard x86 server vendor kit.

$0.02 :)

Ewan