{"id":5949,"date":"2007-10-03T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/unified-communications-gaining-momentum.html"},"modified":"2007-10-03T20:26:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T20:26:23","slug":"unified-communications-gaining-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/unified-communications-gaining-momentum.html","title":{"rendered":"Unified Communications Gaining Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bill-gates.jpg\" \/>In less than two weeks the communications market will be bolstered by the announcement of Microsoft officially entering the unified communications space in a major way. As a show of their support for the market, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2007\/aug07\/08-21UCGVCFMA.mspx\">speaking<\/a> about the opportunity to a live audience.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">To get an idea of what Microsoft will be rolling out be sure to read my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/microsoft-pushes-into-communications-and-beyond.html\">article<\/a> on the company.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The significance of this news cannot be underestimated as Bill Gates is not used by the company to push technologies which are not core to Microsoft&rsquo;s strategy. If you need proof that Microsoft is serious about unified communications, imagine at a time when Microsoft is rolling out new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/10\/03\/2986809.htm\">music players<\/a> and some of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/09\/24\/2961614.htm\">popular video games<\/a> in the world, Bill Gates is taking time to talk unified communications instead of video games or music players.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I would imagine if there is nothing to slow the momentum down, 2008 will certainly be the year of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/unified-communications\/\">unified communications<\/a>. This will hopefully be good for the entire communications industry and give more choice for corporate customers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than two weeks the communications market will be bolstered by the announcement of Microsoft officially entering the unified communications space in a major way. As a show of their support for the market, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will be speaking about the opportunity to a live audience. &nbsp; To get an idea of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,202,172,215,199,188,189,211,118,177,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}