My Daughter, Cisco And Now Microsoft Is On Board - posted by Day Tooley
Unified messaging is finally official. Business communication will catch up.
My “non-technical” 13-year-old 7th grader was collaborating with classmates on her Mac the other night as she was doing her homework. Others were being contacted and added to the conversation. Emails and files were being exchanged. And, of course, some music was playing. These kids had their new school-issued iBooks for 2 weeks and were masters of them already.
Yesterday Bill Gates took the pulpit at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to announce that Microsoft was committing to take the parents of these kids into “unified communications,” a term that refers to combining voice calls, e-mail, instant messaging and videoconferencing into one application.
Here’s the deal: In three years Microsoft believes there will be 100 million users of unified communications, which should provide companies with a 50 percent reduction in communications costs. It represents a $45 billion annual market opportunity (and that’s not counting the kids).
This is good news for businesses and for parents. In three years we can be buying stuff from Microsoft so that we can save some money on communication costs and understand what our kids already do today for free.
October 17th, 2007 by Day TooleyOne Response to “My Daughter, Cisco And Now Microsoft Is On Board”
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It is amazing to watch young adults blast past adults in their technological know-how for good uses.
Nice commentary!