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Microsoft Drops VoIP from Windows Live Messenger

Wed, Jun 25

Wed, Jun 25 Once again, Microsoft's consumer-play VoIP offerings seems very incoherent with many stops & starts. They're on again off again... First, they added SIP to Windows Messenger and it worked with 3rd party SIP ITSPs such as Net2Phone. but then they launched MSN Messenger and pulled out the...

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This Week, VoIP & Gadgets says (in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 beta released) I'm happy to see Kintan involved with OCS since back in the early days of OCS. I wonder if Kintan was with Microsoft when Microsoft launched technologies formerly referred to by the code name "Greenwich", which was part of the Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server (RTC Server) 2003. I...

And VoIP & Gadgets says (in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 beta released) Microsoft has had many stops & starts in VoIP - from Netmeeting to Windows Messenger with support with SIP providers (Net2Phone) to RTC Server. It appears with OCS 2007 (which I've reviewed) and now OCS 2007 R2 beta Microsoft finally ...

2 Months Ago, VoIP & Gadgets says (in Microsoft Drops VoIP from Windows Live Messenger) Once again, Microsoft's consumer-play VoIP offerings seems very incoherent with many stops & starts. They're on again off again... First, they added SIP to Windows Messenger and it worked with 3rd party SIP ITSPs such as Net2Phone. but then they launched MSN Messenger and pulled out the...