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Thoughts on Microsoft Response Point

One of the products that stood out at last week's Internet Telephony EXPO was Microsoft Response Point. Built as an easy way to bring SIP-based digital telephony to small organizations, it's ease of use is a step on the path towards pulling customers away from traditional, TDM-based telephony infrastructures...as...

Tags: Software, SIP, Phone, Telephony, Product, Microsoft Corp., Response Point, Microsoft Response Point, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies, Networking, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Microsoft Response Point phone software for small businesses set to RTM

Microsoft is expected to announce on October 2 that it has released to manufacturing (RTM'd) that its Response Point small-business phone-system software, according to sources close to the company. Response Point, the product formerly codenamed "Edinburgh," will be brought to market by handset vendors. It is targeted...

Tags: Phone, Uniden, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Response Point, Home Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Networking, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Two very different VoIP platforms. One company (Microsoft). Will the two ever meet?

Under the headline Microsoft unveils VoIP-enabled phone platform, WindowsForDevices.com has a story about the hardware coming to market thats uses Microsofts Windows XP Embedded-based "Response Point." According to the post:Microsoft last week unveiled a VoIP-enabled phone system software platform based on Windows XP Embedded. "Response Point," currently in beta,...

Tags: Telephony, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Microsoft does open source a favor with Response Point

Microsoft does open source a favor with Response PointThe good kid in townMicrosoft has been the good kid. Its too bad that many in the industry have a negative impression of Microsoft. If only they read up on or worked/programmed on Microsoft technologies, they would realize in terms of software...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, Microsoft Corp., Response Point

Discussion threads 2007-03-25

Microsoft readies 'Edinburgh' phone software for small businesses

At the kick-off of its second annual Small Business Summit event in Seattle on March 19, Microsoft took the wraps off Response Point, software designed to power small-business phone systems that are under development by a handful of Microsoft partners. Response Point, software that was formerly known by the...

Tags: Response Point, Jeff Smith, software, Microsoft Corp., telephone, small business

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Additional Resources

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...

Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

PKB 2.2 (Windows)

PKB is a new concept in Personal Information Managers. Not another fancy and overloaded appearance, full of confusing functions that you don't need. Not another invasive application requiring installation and megabytes of space. PKB is aimed to reduce the user interface to a direct response. It is designed to be...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, MARSIUS Space, PKB 2.2, PKB, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-20

FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Google-Microsoft rivalry on with ChromeOS launch

This will usher in an era of intense competition and innovation, as well aslower prices.This will be good for all concerned. Windows users will get lower prices and faster innovation. The Windows users should be Google's biggest fans here.Chorme OS could get 10% or more of the netbook market. That...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Chrome, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Niacin best for raising good cholesterol

i'm a pharmacist...and this article is a rubishDO NOT trust this type of cheap propagandaI'm also a pharmacist...agree!The "study" consisted of only 300 or so "patients"...not large enough to be statistically significant. Not only that, it was funded by a competitor to Zetia/Vytorin!Now, I'm not saying niacin...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, cholesterol, Health Care professional, CEC, Costco, pharmacist, Dana, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

B&W Zeppelin Mini Speakers for iPod

Back in 2007, Bowers & Wilkins brought out the uniquely styled Zeppelin iPod speaker, which we described in our review as being every bit as sophisticated as Apple's iconic player, with detailed sound that largely lived up to B&W's high-end reputation. That Zeppelin remains on the market, but now it's...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Zeppelin Mini, Apple iPod, B&W, Apple iPhone, speaker

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Why not pay for what works?

Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers

RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...

Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Oracle: EC has 'profound misunderstanding' of database market

Seems to me the EC is interested in protecting Open Source......and not choice.The flipside of that argument I presume is thatOracle does not need to acquire MySQL and hence the EC's concerns might be met. How about it Oracle. Sell it or set it free, completely. Put your money where...

Tags: Databases, database, Oracle Corp., MySQL, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone)

RE: Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone)I too would be very bothered by the yellowness of the screen if these pics are acurate.Droid whitesIn looking at each of these pics, the white on the Droid seems very yellow. Is this eactually the case...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Droid, Apple iPhone, Screen Shootout

Discussion threads 2009-11-09