Just ask any business traveler on a red-eye flight after a few days of meetings at corporate headquarters: There’s got to be a better way for businesses to bring employees together face-to-face.
Microsoft researchers felt sure they could come up with one – an audio/video device that’s mobile, simple to operate and costs much less than expensive video conferencing systems. Now, Microsoft aims to deliver on all three of these original design goals with Microsoft Office RoundTable, a device scheduled to debut by mid-year 2007. It combines the features of a speakerphone with those found in videoconferencing into a device that Microsoft expects will retail for less than US$3,000.
PressPass spoke with Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group, to find out more about RoundTable, how the technology matured within Microsoft and how pre-release versions of the technology have enhanced his own conference calls.
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