14 DAY TRIAL // If you are looking for a cute and funny perspective over Voice over Internet Protocol then look no further than Microsoft. The Redmond company introduced a new website designed to advertise its latest VoIP solutions and also managed to throw a little humor into the mix. The point of the website is to get the message through that the software based VoIP products from Microsoft can integrate seamlessly with an existing infrastructure of PBX hardware. Toward the end of July, Microsoft brought to life its vision on unified communications with the release to manufacturing of both Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Present at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting, Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, announced that the code for the two VoIP solutions went gold and that it RTMed on July 27.
"So, you're thinking about transitioning to VoIP. You're considering the intimidating reconstruction job that's a large part of ripping and replacing your PBX. Here's some good news: software, not hardware, is the future of communications. So as you make your IP telephony plan, you can include a software-based VoIP solution from Microsoft. It avoids expensive forklift replacements of your existing system and works with your IPBX - and legacy PBX - with software that's compatible with your present infrastructure," reads a message from Microsoft posted on the VoIPAsYouAre website. "Our software-based VoIP solutions integrates with Active Directory, Microsoft office, Microsoft Exchange Server and you PBX. It maximizes your current PBX investment and gives your company the enterprise IM, VoIP, and conferencing solutions it needs without creating a lot of unnecessary complexity for your IT department. It's big change, without changing it all."
The website of course has an additional role besides delivering Microsoft's humorous view on software based VoIP solutions. And in the end, VoIPAsYouAre poins the visitors to the free evaluation editions of Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Simply download the two products and test drive then with your existing software and hardware architecture. "Office Communications Server 2007, the next evolution of Live Communications Server, delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most-like Microsoft Outlook. And when you download the 180-day trial software, you're automatically registered to receive valuable resources delivered at strategic intervals throughout the software evaluation period," Microsoft revealed.