Microsoft aims to help developers add presence

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When it comes to the power of presence in applications, "we're just scratching the surface," Ed Simnett, senior product manager for the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft, told InstantMessagingPlanet.com.

"Presence is becoming a normal part of information workers bag of tricks," Simnett said. "We're seeing an increasing interest from customers in having presence part of other applications." In a move to help make it easier for developers to combine presence and real-time collaboration capabilities with business applications, Microsoft today introduced controls and new sample code for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.