1亿人将在工作中使用IP电话
作者： NYDN
责任编辑： 阚智
来源： 《电脑商情报》
时间： 2007-03-09 00:36
The phone on your desk may soon go the way of the adding machine and typewriter.
Some 100 million workers will be using the Internet to place phone calls by 2010, according to Microsoft, which will start testing the feature for its Office software this month.
That would be about double the employees using today's Internet-phone services, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, told Bloomberg News. Microsoft's Internet-calling systems will cost half as much as current technology, he said.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, will begin testing two products that let users make phone calls and set up teleconferences from Office programs. The company, which sees phone services as a way to expand Office sales, has teamed up with Nortel on the project.
While the goal of 100 million users is "feasible," Microsoft will have to challenge some big competitors, said Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Washington-based research firm. "The major players in this market are folks like Avaya and Cisco."
Raikes, who will speak today at the VoiceCon Internet-phone conference in Orlando, said he's confident many companies will be interested in adding the new technology, especially when they see how much it will save them.
"Nobody wants to pay as much as they are paying now," he said.
Internet-based phone services currently cost an average of $450 per employee to set up and $180 a year to maintain, Raikes said.
The new programs, Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator, will be widely available in a few months. Corporations will need to add them to their Office software to use the phone features, which will let a worker initiate a call from an Outlook address-book contact.
Employees who use a Microsoft SharePoint Web site to collaborate on a project will be able to set up a conference call directly from the site.
Some 100 million workers will be using the Internet to place phone calls by 2010, according to Microsoft, which will start testing the feature for its Office software this month.
That would be about double the employees using today's Internet-phone services, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, told Bloomberg News. Microsoft's Internet-calling systems will cost half as much as current technology, he said.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, will begin testing two products that let users make phone calls and set up teleconferences from Office programs. The company, which sees phone services as a way to expand Office sales, has teamed up with Nortel on the project.
While the goal of 100 million users is "feasible," Microsoft will have to challenge some big competitors, said Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Washington-based research firm. "The major players in this market are folks like Avaya and Cisco."
Raikes, who will speak today at the VoiceCon Internet-phone conference in Orlando, said he's confident many companies will be interested in adding the new technology, especially when they see how much it will save them.
"Nobody wants to pay as much as they are paying now," he said.
Internet-based phone services currently cost an average of $450 per employee to set up and $180 a year to maintain, Raikes said.
The new programs, Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator, will be widely available in a few months. Corporations will need to add them to their Office software to use the phone features, which will let a worker initiate a call from an Outlook address-book contact.
Employees who use a Microsoft SharePoint Web site to collaborate on a project will be able to set up a conference call directly from the site.
