Microsoft buy will help Office find a voice
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft has purchased privately held media-streams.com to add Voice over IP capabilities to Office applications and servers.
It's Microsoft's second recent acquisition in the space and comes as a slew of Internet, communications and software industry players buy or build VoIP offerings.
Zurich, Switzerland-based media-streams.com said its e-phone product turns e-mail into a phone by integrating corporate voice communication into Microsoft Outlook.
The five-year-old firm will be a Microsoft subsidiary, reporting to the Real-Time Collaboration Group under corporate vice president Anoop Gupta.