San Francisco Oct 6,2007 Bill Gates announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft’s unified communications software, Gate Said; In the following years sweeping technology innovations driven by the power of software will transform communications. Working with partners, we are making rapid advances that will enable fundamental advances in the way people communicate and collaborate at work.

Joined by customers, and partners, the Microsoft bigwigs launched unified communications and VoIP software that includes the following,

  • Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 software that delivers VoIP, video and instant messenger
  • Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 client software for phone, instant messaging and video communications that works across PC, mobile phones and web browser.
  • Microsoft Office Live Meeting the next version of Microsoft advanced conferencing service that enables workers to make meetings, share documents, utilize video and record discussions from basically any PC.
  • Microsoft Roundtable A conferencing phone with a 360-degree camera that captures a panoramic view of meeting participants; tracks the speaker and can record meetings
  • Service Pack for Microsoft Exchange 2007

    It seems like Microsoft is cooking pretty good stuff for the following years, for those people saying that Microsoft is dead, I think they are wrong