March 9, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) recently announced in a keynote address at VoiceCon Spring 2007 (voicecon.com) that in approximately three years, the average voice over Internet protocol solution for business will cost half what it does today as VoIP systems move from hardware to software and that about 100 million people, twice the number of current business VoIP users, will have the ability to make phone calls from Microsoft Office applications.
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Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, illustrated the inefficiencies of the standard telephone by pointing to a Harris Interactive Service survey that found that two-thirds of business phone calls end in voice-mail messages.
"Software is set to transform business phone systems as profoundly as it has transformed virtually every other form of workplace communication," says Raikes. "Over time, the software-based VoIP technology built into Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator will offer so much value and cost savings that it will make the standard telephone look like that old typewriter that's gathering dust in the stockroom."
Microsoft says it will distribute the public beta-test version of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft's VoIP and unified communications server, and Office Communicator 2007 to millions of testers later this month.
