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Microsoft set to step up IM effort

edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
Microsoft is gearing up for its most agressive effort yet to sell instant messaging services to corporations.

[blockquote]When the company on Tuesday launches Office System, its updated suite of business applications, customers will find hooks to instant messaging (IM) features that are built into e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs.

The idea is to let employees see at a glance from any corporate document up-to-the-minute contact information about each other, a feature known as "presence" in IM parlance. For example, an Outlook e-mail message might note that the author is currently offline and available only at their cell phone number.
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