What is UC?

Microsoft unified communications technologies offer customers choices in how their communications and collaboration software is delivered, managed, and maintained:

• On-premise
• Hosted by partners
• Hosted by Microsoft

By uniting your existing communication systems and tools:

• Desktop telephone systems
• Legacy PBX and IP-PBX systems
• Internet
• Voice mail
• Faxes

With the productivity tools your people use every day:

• Windows Mobile-powered devices
• E-mail
• 2007 Microsoft Office System
• Instant messaging

Using integrated servers plus services and client applications:

• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

To deliver complete communications tools:

• VoIP telephone service
• E-mail
• Audio and video conferencing
• Voice mail
• Presence and contact information
• Faxes
• Instant messaging
• Calendars

And delivers them across multiple convenient applications and devices:

• Desktop computers and telephone
• Public Internet
• Windows Mobile-powered devices
• PSTN telephones