Today Microsoft launched Microsoft® Office real-time collaboration solutions with a dog and pony show led by Bill Gate’s himself. In a connection featuring Mark Burnett, creator of “The Apprentice” reality show hosted by Donald Trump, Gates demonstrated his software. They expect to roll out three primary products in the coming months:
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (previously code-named “Istanbul”) that is claimed to “unif[y] real-time communications modes — such as IM, voice, video and access to voiceconferencing and Web conferencing — into a single application. It also enables PC-to-phone integration”,
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack, an update to the existing communications platform, and
Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005, touted as a major update to the existing net meeting software.
