The Redmond software vendor has made available for download new presence controls and is convincing third-party vendors to embed them in their CRM, workflow and management applications.
The Microsoft brass believes real-time collaboration means a lot more than just instant messaging.
To push real-time technologies into the business applications space, the Redmond software vendor is making available to Visual Studio developers a set of controls and code samples that can be used to build presence directly into their applications.
Microsoft officially unveiled on Thursday its Presence Controls for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (originally known as the Real-Time Collaboration Presence Toolkit). At the same time, it rolled out an accompanying sample implement of role-based instant messaging and presence, as well as a custom-alerting application sample.
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