[Original published date: 7/15/2007 7:08:52 PM]I went to the Microsoft Technology Center of Taiwan BU last week to see the new Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007's capability and limitation due to my work.
The giant leap to MOCS 2007 is to integrate all the office product with instant message service, mobile service, email service, phone service and video conference service. Basically, it combine all the possible communication ways in the real modern world right now with MS Office. But first, I need to remind you that most new features of MOCS 2007 must co-operate with Office 2007. It means you should upgrade your old MS Office version to 2007 before using MOCS 2007. It is another example to Microsoft for gaining a lot of money from client, so don't be surprised.
During the DEMO, the people from Microsoft showed us some user cases by using MOCS 2007, and it looks fantastic! By integrating with Office 2007, any one in the organization could easily communicate with others. Just simply click the communication target in the menu and choice which end device you want to use, then the back-end MOCS 2007 will make a connection for you. The user does not need to remember communication target's instant message account, email account, modile phone number, desktop phone number or vedio conference IP because MOCS 2007 handles all of them. All the client users who want to have these benifits should install office 2007 and MOCS client agent on their computer.
Another impressive demo is the integration of MOCS 2007 and Office 2007. Imagine that you received a word document file from one of your colleagues and you want to make a contact with him because of some issue in file. At old time, you need to look up his phone number or email account then make a phone call or send an email. But for now, you only need to press a button in Office Word menu then the MOCS client will handle the rest of process, communicating target user for you right away. All the Office software could work like this including Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. Besides, MOCS 2007 also could co-operate with Microsoft Exchanger Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and many other Microsoft Server systems to enrich the communication behavior.
However, consider the current status of most enterprises, the real practical feature is instant message service in MOCS 2007. The vedio conference will impact the network bandwidth and the phone service must leverage with some telephone switch devices, so they won't be the major motive for a company to user MOCS 2007. For more information about MOCS 2007, please check
here. According to the information from Microsoft Technology Center this time, the formal version of MOCS 2007 will come out before end of Q3 this year. From now to the launch day, Microsoft will hold a series activities such as workshop, fresh meeting and tech conference to the public, let's wait and see!
[re-post this article due to database crash.]
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