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Photos: Microsoft's new platform for unified communications

By // October 21, 2007, 5:55 AM PST // jasonhiner

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  • Bill Gates at Unified Communications Launch 2007

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shows off the Microsoft Roundtable video conferencing camera during his keynote presentation at Microsoft's Unified Communications Launch 2007 event in San Francisco on October 16. For more about the event, read Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company.

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  • Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes

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  • Office Communicator 2007 main window

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  • Office Communicator 2007 interoperability with MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AIM

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  • Office Communicator 2007 access controls

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  • Start a video call from Office Communicator 2007

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  • Call forwarding in Office Communicator 2007

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  • Location lookup in Office Communicator 2007

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  • Office Communicator 2007 can embed rich text and graphics

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  • Video calling in Office Communicator 2007

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  • Alert message in Office Communicator 2007

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  • Office Communicator 2007 integrates presence information into Outlook 2007

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  • Conversation History in Outlook/Exchange does archiving of IM conversations

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  • Office Communicator 2007 includes whiteboarding features

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  • Office LiveMeeting 2007 allows PowerPoint sharing and natively supports the Microsoft Roundtable camera

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  • Microsoft Roundtable video conferencing camera

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  • Closeup of the Microsoft Roundtable camera

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  • Microsoft's Gurdeep Singh Pall shows off devices that work with Microsoft's UC platform

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  • LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540 interoperates with Office Communicator 2007

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  • LG-Nortel Bluetooth headset

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  • Polycom CX400 Cordless Phone

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  • Polycom CX700 IP Phone interoperates with Office Communicator 2007

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  • Polycom CX100 Speakerphone

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Bill Gates at Unified Communications Launch 2007

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shows off the Microsoft Roundtable video conferencing camera during his keynote presentation at Microsoft's Unified Communications Launch 2007 event in San Francisco on October 16. For more about the event, read Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company.

Photo Credit: Microsoft

About Jason Hiner

Jason Hiner is Global Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and Global Long Form Editor of ZDNet. He's co-author of the book, Follow the Geeks.

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