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Microsoft Teams Up With Japanese VoIP Carrier

paritosh wrote to mention an Ars article about the joining up of Microsoft and Softbank to provide enterprise-level VoIP, IM, email, Internet, and groupware to the Japanese market. They are already discussing bringing it to the U.S. if it succeeds there. From the article: "With Softbank BB supplying most of the VoIP infrastructure, Microsoft's primary focus in this agreement will be providing hosted versions of its server products. Some of the products mentioned in the agreement include Exchange 2003, Office Live Communications Server 2005 and SharePoint. I wouldn't be surprised to see Windows Messenger make its way into the mix considering its new PC-to-POTS capability, which can act as a segue into the larger areas of the VoIP market in North America."

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  1. Oh wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You vill talk!

    You vill use Vindows to talk!

    and you vill like it!

  2. Only 5 (+1) Comments? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is Slashdot so dead tonight? Is there something going on that no one has told me about?

  3. overdrive.bpl.org Public Libraries' Mac users by donsaklad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What can be done to fix http://overdrive.bpl.org/
    for our Boston Public Libraries' Mac users?...

    Here's the article by Hiawatha Bray http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/12 /30/library_audiobooks_now_just_a_few_mouse_clicks _away/?page=full