For telecommunications devices such as Cisco, Nortel and Avaya, Tuesday is their bad day.
Tomorrow, Bill Gates will announce Microsoft's official foray into the communications equipment industry. The product that Microsoft brings is "unified communication". This is a platform to integrate all communication methods, such as: Voice, video, instant messaging and other information.
If the project succeeds, the software will accelerate the transfer of communications from proprietary devices to the Internet. And this will radically change the current communications industry from deep down. This is indeed a big challenge for other vendors who are Microsoft's competitors and partners.
Tomorrow, Bill Gates will be with Jeff Raikes. Introduction to Unified communications for the following three points: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007;microsoft Office Communicator 2007;microsoft Office Live meeting.
Gates also said that microprocessors and the Internet would revolutionize the way we communicate. As our communication and entertainment depend increasingly on the internet, there are endless protocols: email, VOIP,IPTV, instant messaging, and other protocols that do not integrate communication processes well. The next generation of Microsoft's communications platform will break the incompatibility between the various protocols, and all communication methods are perfectly integrated.