Microsoft submitted the new version of the solution for the joint communications

The Microsoft company at the VoiceCon 2010 conference which is taking place in Orlando of the State of Florida, the USA submitted the new version of the solution for the joint communications code-named of Communications Server '14'. Due to integration into office applications the new product will allow users to communicate with each other, making calls, participating in teleconferences, transferring video or instant messages, using the usual systems installed on the computer. Communication Server ‘14’ will be available in the second half of 2010. In Russia the solution will become available in Russian at once.

According to the developer, the new version of OCS '14' is the full communication solution including both corporate telephony, and the Communicator application using infrastructure of Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Exchange in the work. Communications Server ‘14’ allows to define whether colleagues are available to communications, to involve them in joint work irrespective of their location.

According to Ann Veyler, the director of division of promotion of the system Office, Microsoft in Russia, implementation of the concept of the joint communications gave a big impetus to the market. The special software which implemented new opportunities of telephony and interactive interaction is the cornerstone of the solution. Customers and partners in Russia, such as, for example, Softline, I-Teco, Ai Ti Sistemz, Croc began to use actively solutions of Microsoft for the joint communications, having quickly seen their value.

Three years ago Microsoft changed the principle of communications, having transferred them from the separate vertical systems on the integrated platform on the basis of the special software.

According to forecasts of Microsoft, in the next three years joint work of staff of any company will be based on technologies of "the connected communications". Moreover, 90% of all business applications will have the built-in solutions for the joint communications.