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Polycom (www.polycom.com) and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) have declared their love, er a “global strategic agreement” for developing and marketing “integrated,” standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions. The agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s “key strategic global alliance” for UC; both sides will invest in product development, sales, and marketing. Polycom will develop a broad base of solutions [...] Alteva (www.altevatel.com) has announced a partnership with Microsoft and Broadsoft, interconnecting its hosted voice and messaging services with Microsoft’s products, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Suite (OCS). When Microsoft products are integrated with Alteva’s hosted VoIP service, customers will get voice-enable Outlook calendars and email, phone presence, and business continuity, among other features. Alteva [...] Coming out of CTIA, Yap (www.yapinc.com) has announced that its automated, cloud-based speech recognition service has been selected by Microsoft for its speech-to-text capabilities in its Talk to Text mobile application developed for Sprint. Net-net, Sprint subscribers can speak their text messages and email, with Talk to Text available immediately for all Blackberry devices running on [...] Yes Virginia, more Microsoft OCS (Office Communications Server) “14” news. AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has announced Survivable Branch Appliances for OCS “14.” AudioCodes Mediant 100 and Mediant 2000 multi-service business gateways are now field-upgradable to support Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) functionality. Customers can upgrade AudioCodes gateways to support SBA features and, in addition, the same gateways also support [...] ChannelWeb reports that Microsoft is wishy-washy about what will to happen with it’s Response Point SMB VoIP system. Meeting with VoIP VARs, Response Point Program Manager John Frederickson said Microsoft doesn’t currently plan to release future versions of Response Point. It will, however, continue to maintain the product and evaluate specific feature requests. The company will [...] Nortel’s asset fire sale “could possibly gut” its 3 year UC partnership with Microsoft, Network World says. Uh, yah think? Given that HP and Microsoft swore to be friends and jointly invest up to $180 million at InterOp last month, I’d say both companies are in splitsville. Back in 2006, Nortel and Microsoft rolled out a [...] |
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