Microsoft makes big call for VoIP
TechWeb | at | by Mike
While it's no secret that Microsoft has been quietly cobbling together the pieces of a VoIP strategy for several months, CEO Steve Ballmer finally tied it all together at a company conference in Japan on Monday: the company will formally enter the market early next year by incorporating the Web phoning technology with its operating system.
According to media reports, Ballmer said Microsoft's VoIP rollout, which would include videoconferencing as well as VoIP, will be combined with e-mail, video and instant messaging technologies. The ambitious deployment would not only be a part of its operating system, but also be incorporated in desktop applications and server software.