On 3/6/06, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why not just use Skype or similar software? Why make voice over IP link > to an office suite?
I think, and again, I'm just going on what I read in the article, it is different from VoIP. It's just that Word rings, and you answer it by clicking clippy. It that you log into MSO (the corporate edition) so that MSO "knows" where you are physically in the building. It then sends that information to the CISCO phone server, which routes all your incoming calls to the phone nearest the computer you are using. So it's just that MSO is your phone. It just talks to your phone system. Maybe we should just do a deal with an open source VOIP software > provider and link to OOo. Can't really see the gain in answering a phone > call in a WP That could be a good idea, having some sort of hook into GIZMO (Linspire's Open Source VoIP) or something - but that's different than what this is talking about. I don't really know if OOo needs to answer this with a matching feature - I don't think we can very easily, and I really don't think we should. I just saw it as one more way that MS is making MSO dug deeper into the corporate user experience. I mean, if you're going to do this - have your computers tell the phones where to ring - why isn't it a part of the operating system (which for this service would have to Windows) - instead of the office suite? You have to log in to a terminal to use it - (in a corporate environment like this is talking about) - so why doesn't Windows tell CISCO where you are, instead of MSO. Since when do you have to log into Office? Everytime I've been in a shared environment (mostly at school) - when I logged into Windows, my copy and setup of Office was already there. I think MS could have made it where Windows told CISCO where you are - but then the corps could use OOo on their copy of Windows, and still get the phones to follow you. But by tying it into Office somehow - they made it where if you want this service (and I can see the value in it) - you have to have Windows *AND* Office for it to work. Just my take on the matter... -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software!
