Company readies public beta test of latest Office Communications Server, which will let users make phone calls from other Office applications. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in ...

Microsoft released the public beta for its Office Communications Server 2007 this week. Here are some key facts about the product. OCS 2007 is the centerpiece of Microsoft’s unified communications ...

The firm said it will open the beta to 2,500 IT professionals in the second quarter of 2007. The beta is aimed at business users, who will be able to utilize their existing telephony infrastructure.

Microsoft has announced its long awaited corporate instant messaging (IM) client — formerly codenamed 'Istanbul'. Now dubbed Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, it becomes the official client for the ...

Office Communicator is the real-time presence interface for the Microsoft Office product lineup, and is one of the keystone products in Microsoft's upcoming presence-based collaboration strategy. The ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a unified communications product road map, demonstrating voice, video and messaging capabilities that it expects to ship in the first half of next year. Jeff Raikes, ...

Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Office Communications Server (OCS) by the latter half of 2010, according to Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unified ...

Microsoft has come out with support for unified communications in a big way with its Live Communications Server portfolio. Traditional telephony suppliers, including Alcatel, Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, ...

Microsoft unveiled plans on Tuesday to introduce a Web-based version of its Communicator enterprise messaging software in order to offer customers increased flexibility in accessing the company's ...

If you’ve run into some quirks with Office for Mac 2011 or noticed that its AutoUpdater experiences a little self-loathing, Microsoft has a minor update with your name on it. Office for Mac version 14 ...

Microsoft and Nokia are working together to put a version of Microsoft’s Office productivity applications on Nokia handsets, the companies said Wednesday. Microsoft Business Division President Stephen ...

Microsoft is putting more emphasis on helping workers collaborate in the next version of the productivity software, an exec says. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...