[cisco-voip] For those needing a laugh...

[Cleaveland, AJ Allan @ IS]

 And of course no demo was ever anything less than actual, functional
product...

One of Microsoft's methods of shooting themselves in the foot (and the
rest of us stuck with them) is that they like to come up with nice,
controlled scenarios of use and develop to that (rather like a perpetual
demo soultion).  Take their stuff out of this pristine imaginary world
and it shows massive problems at the fundamental level (i.e., problems
not easily fixed).  No doubt Microsoft will design to a system
completely consisting of only their own software with no outside links
or worries or need to follow anyone else's protocols (like, say, the
entire industry's) for interoperability and so on.  All once again.

Microsoft's problem is becoming that the rest of the world is seeing
them as irrelevant and moving away from their systems.  Their
"dominance" may soon be limited only to the US while their vulnerability
will remain world-wide (lots of countries are enjoying fining them for
the practices we've convicted them of--and the done nothing about).  And
this may be the salvation of us all.  Especially in the telephony world,
a well-established environment, which is not the type of world Microsoft
is used to playing in.  They aren't the big boys here and they're sure
to learn that the hard way.  Which will either rid our shelves of any
telephony offerings from them so we needn't worry about them (not
worrying about MS?  A dream come true!) or it will force them to learn
interoperability and compliance with the industry for the first time.

Allan

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Charles
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:52 PM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi
Cc: ciscovoip; Simon,Bill
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] For those needing a laugh...

Ummm... Don't be so quick to blast R12... I saw a demo of the system and
it makes Unity look like a child's toy. Full voice recognition with full
integration of everything you can do from Outlook (meeting scheduling,
rescheduling, email, vmail, etc..)

It is all under NDA at the moment but from what I have been seeing Cisco
should be very afraid.



Jonathan

On 7/13/06, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> I'll bet we'll be able to forward non-primary lines though. ;)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon, Bill
> To: 'ciscovoip'
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] For those needing a laugh...
>
> Haw haw!  Microsoft, blue screen of death, what a laughable company.  
> I'm sure glad my Cisco VoIP solution isn't built on a Microsoft
platform.
>
> Erm...
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fretz, EA Eric @ IS [mailto:Eric.A.Fretz at L-3Com.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:11 PM
> > To: ciscovoip
> > Subject: [cisco-voip] For those needing a laugh...
> >
> > Microsoft has decided to get into the VoIP / Unified messaging 
> > market...
> >
> >
> http://searchvoip.techtarget.com/columnItem/0,294698,sid66_gci
> 1199049,00
> > .html?track=NL-85&ad=557348&ASRC=EM_NNL_356537
> >
> > I can hear the help desk now, "Yes sir.... Your phone has a blue 
> > screen?
> > Ok, please disconnect the network cable from the phone and 
> > [click].....<dial tone>....."
> >
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