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Microsoft exhibits its next version of Office Communications Server

Microsoft is offering its first of all public glimpse of Office Devices Server 14,publisher 2010 contains the new ribbon interface. its all-in-one instant messaging/VOIP/conferencing product from the VoiceCon show in Orlando in March 24.

Office Communications Server 14 - which I've heard is going to be called Office Communications Server 2010 when it ships in the latter part of this year - will be tightly integrated with SharePoint Server 2010 together with Exchange Server 2010, as I've reported previously.microsoft publisher 2007 includes new E-mail Merge capabilities. Microsoft officials reconfirmed today that OCS 14 can ship before the end on this year.

From some of the new screen shots supplied by Microsoft of OCS 14, it looks like social-networking will probably become more pervasive in Home office Communicator, the client component of your handmade jewelry.adobe acrobat x software lets you deliver professional PDF communications. Microsoft is adding location auto-detection, activity feeds, and integrated skill-search functionality to the next release of OCS.

Microsoft officials are sharing information only around the voice features of OCS fifteen today, a company spokesperson said. The Redmondians also aren't discussing today about when and whether it will have a public beta of OCS 17. At the Professional Developers Conference late recently, officials said to expect a non-public Technology Adoption Partner test of OCS 14 to start in the second calendar quarter of the year. The codename for that TAP program is "Metro. " A company spokesperson stated the TAP program for OCS 16 kicked off "days ago. "

Microsoft isn't releasing sales amounts for OCS, but company officials claim OCS sales have raised by double digits every year going back three years. Microsoft officials say that much more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 have OCS plus 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, 8 of the top 10 aerospace companies, and 9 of the top 10 banks.

No word from the Softies to what will be new in this cloud-side complement to OCS sixteen, the Office Communications Online provider, which provides users with instantaneous messaging, presence and peer-to-peer voice phone via the hosted OCS offering. Here's the official response at a company spokesperson when I quizzed:

"We update Microsoft Online Services with new capabilities every 90 days, and in the future, we will make additional features, including many of the effectiveness in Communications Server '14', available as part of Workplace Communications Online. We will have more to share with you on this front in any coming weeks and months. "

Microsoft officials are now predicting that unified communications would be the norm in business communications in 36 months. (I kind of find that this is like "This may be the year of IPTV" predictions; the date when a special technology gains a foothold is generally several years - or a long time - further away than those participating a market anticipate.)

Any OCS users out at this time there? What are you expecting/hoping causes it to into the new version of OCS that wasn't a part of OCS R2, which Microsoft released to manufacturing back in December 2008?