In addition, rival Research In Motion plans to develop messaging software for devices that link to servers using software from both RIM and Microsoft. The company is working on software to allow devices that use Windows Mobile to connect to a...
Microsoft announced on Tuesday it has formed a strategic partnership with Nortel Networks to develop and market unified-communications products. Nortel will be Microsoft's strategic partner as its pushes its unified-communications products.
Microsoft, which has high hopes that the convergence of voice and data networks will allow it to get into the unified communications market, is ready with its first test software for running business phone systems.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes have formally launched several products that are key to the company's strategy of offering "unified communications" for businesses - that is, software for bringing together...
Cisco Systems is bolstering its unified communications and collaboration portfolio with the purchase of a corporate instant-messaging company. The deal will help Cisco compete even more aggressively against Microsoft in the unified communications...
Rick McConnell, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Unified Communications division, said the software suite no longer requires a router for connections from a remote location, such as a home.