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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3">After reading this article it is obvious to me Microsoft intends to replace the PBX. The timeline looks like 3 to 5 years before they are in a position to fully replace the PBX and go head to head with the leaders of the PBX industry.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" size="3"> </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3">My company is a MS house and this type system will gain a lot of interest especially since it is "free", not free as in free beer but free as in you already pay for it in your Microsoft CAL enterprise licenses so why not use it and decommission the Costly PBX...</font><font face="Verdana" size="3"> </font></p>
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