The New York Times weighed in today on Microsoft’s (
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Alert) UCS launch tomorrow, declaring it potentially troublesome for communications companies like Avaya, Cisco and Nortel.
In today’s Technology section, John Markoff posits that by integrating voice, video, instant messaging, etc., Microsoft is “opening a new front in its software strategy” similar to what its Windows and Office approach did in the realm of desktop and corporate computing.
Last Friday, Microsoft’s Windows Live tools suite was enlarged by the addition of an event-planning service--which Microsoft is claiming exceeds the capabilities of established invitation systems like evite.com. The new Windows Live service permits users to add maps and graphical templates to their formatted invitations, and provides a web page after the event for people to post pictures, messages and videos.
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