The firm said it will open the beta to 2,500 IT professionals in the second quarter of 2007. The beta is aimed at business users, who will be able to utilize their existing telephony infrastructure.

Microsoft’s Business Division, announced late last month at the company’s financial analyst conference that Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator code have been completed and that ...

Microsoft released the public beta for its Office Communications Server 2007 this week. Here are some key facts about the product. OCS 2007 is the centerpiece of Microsoft’s unified communications ...

IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 are the two most widely deployed premises-based enterprise unified communications systems – loosely defined for these purposes as a ...

A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft’s new unified communications software as a hosted service. Intermedia on Tuesday will begin offering Microsoft Office Communications Server ...

Office Communicator is the real-time presence interface for the Microsoft Office product lineup, and is one of the keystone products in Microsoft's upcoming presence-based collaboration strategy. The ...

Microsoft Corp. said today it will release Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007 and Office Live Meeting via a public webcast Oct. 16 co-hosted by Chairman Bill Gates ...

Microsoft has released a nearly completed preview version of its next-generation communications server and associated software, which the company has collectively renamed as Lync. This release ...

Microsoft unified communications gets video interoperability with Tandberg products. Specifically, TANDBERG MXP endpoints can now register and authenticate directly with Office Communications Server ...

Miercom test lab put OCS Release 2 through its paces, and found many worthy additions--with a few caveats. When the Miercom team took a look at a RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of Microsoft ...