Today Microsoft and the United Kingdom-based telecommunications leader BT announced a global strategic alliance to deliver a next-generation, integrated real-time communication and collaboration solution to customers worldwide.
The agreement will bring together BT's audio conferencing technology and Microsoft Office Live Meeting to create a real-time collaboration solution for businesses around the world. The companies also will dedicate marketing and sales resources to help drive awareness, usage and adoption of the new solution. BT also plans deployment of Live Meeting within some divisions of its operation.
As part of the announcement, PressPass spoke with Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit, and Pierre Danon, CEO of BT Retail, to discuss what the deal means for customers and the collaboration market as a whole.
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