[Am-info] Microsoft fires Web conferencing salvo

[Fred A. Miller]

"Microsoft this week will unveil Office Live Meeting, the first service 
offered as part of its Office productivity suite. Although the first 
version will pepper only a few enhancements above the service Microsoft 
acquired from PlaceWare earlier this year, the move signals Microsoft's 
long-term aspiration to bring online meetings into the enterprise 
collaboration platform fold.

As a hosted service, Live Meeting will continue the PlaceWare legacy, 
competing against market leader WebEx and a host of other players. In 
this initial incarnation, Live Meeting has not yet been integrated into 
Office and as such will not immediately alter enterprise 
decision-making for Web conferencing, according to analyst Mike Gotta, 
senior vice president of Meta Group."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/36NNcollab_1.html

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