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Microsoft Preps OCS Release

Okay, it's jargon time: Microsoft is talking up the release of OCS R2 as a boost for its UC strategy. Confused? You won't be after this episode of Soap! Whoa, how did that late-'70s TV reference get in there? See, a totally different plane of existence.

Anyway, here's the story on (did you guess?) Office Communications Server R2 and Microsoft's unified communications strategy.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 15, 2008


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