Microsoft Corp. vying with Cisco Systems Inc. for business-phone customers, predicts more than a billion people will use software that combines Internet-calling features with messaging and video within three years.
Microsoft has more than 100 million customers making calls using its Office software, Gurdeep Singh Pall, vice president of the company’s Unified Communications group, said in an interview. Microsoft will release a new version of software for Internet telephony and corporate instant messaging this year, said Pall, who speaks today at a conference in Orlando, Florida.
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