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Microsoft Goes After the business smart phone user with ultimate user platform
On Oct. 16, Microsoft announced software that can tie together phone calls, e-mail, and video conferences. Business Week reported that Bill Gates “says today's systems are like mainframes before PCs and software changed everything.”
Referencing the old closed system PC environments, "We've seen this before. This is just like the computer industry before the personal computer came along," said Gates. "This has been its own world, untouched by the power of software."
Microsoft's new products not only offer workers the ability to know when far-flung colleagues are online, they enable them to call those co-workers or start a video conference from within common programs like Microsoft Outlook and Word. Other features include enabling users to view their e-mail on a cell phone using voice commands.
One big roadblock is Cisco's equally strong ambition in the unified-communications market. "Cisco is all about the intelligent network, and Microsoft is saying the desktop is king,"
Could this be the yin to the yang of the iphone? Apple's iphone is weak in the business applications field.
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