What is Office Communicator?
Office Communicator 2007 is a unified communication tool with rich real-time communication capabilities to allow teams and information workers to share information in an easy and yet efficient manner. The system comes with many communication options, including, real-time chat, audio and video and web conferencing capabilities. The system will initially be deployed on a limited basis with text-based messaging options. Using a phased approach, more features will be enabled later in 2008.
You’re probably familiar with online chat. In its simplest form, it means sending text messages back and forth with another person across a local network or the Internet. The chat concept has grown to cover a range of capabilities that falls under the umbrella of instant messaging. These capabilities are as diverse as text chat and video conferencing. Now Microsoft has added file sharing, application sharing, and IP telephony (Voice over IP, or VoIP). Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 brings all of these features into one program and adds the additional capability of showing presence information. For example, when you open a document in Microsoft Office Word 2003 that is stored in a Document Workspace, which is a type of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site, you can see at a glance which other members of the team are online and available to chat about the document (their names are listed in the Shared Workspace task pane). Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides another good exam
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