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Microsoft Serious About VoIP

Posted by Zonk on from the because-they-have-dalliances-all-the-time dept.

VoIPluvr writes "Microsoft, is quietly turning into a voice-over-IP powerhouse. It all started with the launch of its Microsoft Live Communication Server. Bill Gates says, 'Communicating in a better way has a huge impact for business,' and he states that he wants Microsoft to marry the PC, the cell phone and the desk phone. Recently, Microsoft teamed up with VoIP companies like Sylantro to offer hosted IP-PBX services, and now is rumored to have bought Teleo, a small VoIP company based in San Francisco. Microsoft's dominance on the desktop is helping the company extend its reach into the fast growing VoIP business, thus putting it in direct competition with the likes of Cisco. Teleo, for instance could help the company compete more effectively with the likes of Yahoo and Skype."

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  1. First MS joke by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prepare for the blue screech of death when you pick up the phone!

    Sorry...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:First MS joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Hey can I call you back? Hello? Dammit. *CTRL-ALT-DEL CTRL-ALT-DEL CTRL-ALT-DEL CTRL-ALT-DEL*"


      "Can you hear me now?"


      system has recovered from a serious error

  2. Craching Cell Phones by linsys · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great now my cellphone, home phone and PC can all crash at once.. thanks Micrsofot for being the leader in innovation!!

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    -=Linsys=-
    http://www.intrusionsec.com
    1. Re:Craching Cell Phones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Always with the Microsoft bashing. You clearly don't see the major innovation here -- free 900 number calls.

  3. What's up with the commas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The submitter, VoIPluvr, must be using the Yale comma style and not the more popular Harvard style.

  4. MS applied for a recent VIOP patent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Method for outputting a crashdump as a series of audio tones.

  5. Hey bill, now hear this.. by Halvy · · Score: 3, Funny

    bill: hey steve, can you hear me now!!

    steve bummer: what WHAT!!!

    bill: GOOOOOOODDDD...

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    I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
  6. Re:I'm confused by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now they also want to marry it to my cell phone and my desk phone?

    Already done.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  7. ObCellphone by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    and he states that he wants Microsoft to marry the PC, the cell phone and the desk phone

    Damnit! Don't they get it? I just want a simple phone that works, not lots of gadets. How am I supposed to fit my PC, my cellphone and my desk phone in a shirt pocket?

    Besides, I find this whole thing unnatural and sick. We should pass a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the marrying of objects. Just because Bill Gates has a sexual fetish for devices, doesn't mean I want it shoved in my face. Respect the sanctity of human marriage!

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  8. Re:Why? by arbitraryaardvark · · Score: 3, Funny

    he states that he wants Microsoft to marry the PC, the cell phone and the desk phone
    Unfortunately, he can't do that in washington state, where by law marriage is only between a man and a woman.

    +1 stupid