Tuesday, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates launched OCS 2007. While unable to attend the big event in SF (Nortel was there big time as was our new UC partner Dell), I did attend the concurrent Microsoft Canada press event, under the Innovative Communications Alliance and as sole networking platinum sponsor of OCS events being rolled out in some 50 countries. I then participated in a Microsoft-sponsored panel podcast including Microsoft and CNIB (what was the Canadian National Institute for The Blind). CNIB experienced a lot of value from UC, particularly from the ease of use and adaptability of the advanced speech features of Exchange UM- many of their users are legally blind. The personal highlight of the day was spending some time with Bill Buxton, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, concerned with human aspects of technology. One of the journalist I spoke to called him a Renaissance Man. Technology transparency was clearly his passion, as was mountaineering and music, his first degree. His recently released book "Sketching Human Experience" should be a great read. To illustrate the importance of human design, he referenced the (usually negative) experience many of us have with telephony area codes splitting. It's not a technology issue but a human one. We all talk of the UC user experience, but Microsoft is in a somewhat unique position to really deliver, leveraging the work done by Bill's group.
It's Official- OCS 2007 Is Now Out and People Centricity is King
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