In yet another effort to make MS Office indespensible for corporate users - Microsoft has teamed up with Cisco to have MSO tell your phone company where you are at that moment (as long as you are using MSO) so the phone next to you will ring, even if you aren't at your desk.
>From the article "Phone system follows everywhere" at: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14028708.htm Microsoft is teaming with Cisco Systems to provide a new service that allows workers to see when their colleagues are available and manage phone calls from their computer screens. Workers will be able to route incoming phone calls through the Internet and receive them within Microsoft Office, as part of Microsoft's collaboration with Cisco. To take advantage of the features, a business must use Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft's Live Communications Server, Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Cisco's Unified CallManager server. What do you all think - useless bloat, a new way for MS to acheive vendor-lock-in, a valuable feature, or what? -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software!
