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TOPIC: Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles that nine vendors will create phones that will be used with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, according to an article by Computerworld. The new phones will connect workplace phones with email, instant messaging, conferencing, VoIP and mobile communications. Some of the new phones will include Bluetooth and video capabilities.

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Microsoft announced a new line of Unified Communications devices at the Microsoft Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles (5/14/07). According to Todd Landry, Senior Vice-president Sphere Communications (www.spherecom.com), this story is an excellent bell-weather of the VOIP and IP Telephony markets showing that we are entering a period of major market adoption. Microsoft is recognizing that, presence, video-conferencing and VOIP phones are becoming mainstream. That's great for enterprise awareness. However, as a cautionary note, it takes years of experience for vendors to get converged communications right. Sphere has been at this for more than a decade. If you are looking for a subject matter expert for Unified Communications (UC), VoIP and Microsoft, Todd, a 15-year IP communications industry veteran, is available to discuss this topic.

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Denny Michael joined AVST in May 2003. From 2002 to early 2003, Mr. Michael served as Executive Vice President of Marketing for Starbase Software Corporation, a publicly traded developer of application lifecycle management software. During his tenure at Starbase, Mr. Michael was responsible for developing and implementing the marketing campaign to reestablish the leadership position of Starbase's applications and technology in the company's target market segments. Mr. Michael was also a key member of the senior management team that facilitated the sale of Starbase to Borland Software Corporation in January 2003. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Michael served as Vice President of Marketing at NQL, Inc., a publicly traded software company that developed one of the world's first commercially available intelligent agent languages (Network Query Language) used for massive content gathering and publishing. Prior to NQL, Mr. Michael held various marketing management positions at AST Computers, Inc and Alpha Microsystems. Mr. Michael holds a B.A. degree from California State University - Fullerton.

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