And Lotus Notes/Domino has had presence awareness for *HOW* long???
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From eWeek: Microsoft Pushes Presence for Business 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.
Only Microsoft can get away with a catch-up feature being touted as something new and exciting...
Though I admit to being a little dismayed that the IBM marketing of Notes/Domino can't get this same type of visibility for stuff that is *truly* revolutionary...
From eWeek: Microsoft Pushes Presence for Business 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.
Only Microsoft can get away with a catch-up feature being touted as something new and exciting...
Though I admit to being a little dismayed that the IBM marketing of Notes/Domino can't get this same type of visibility for stuff that is *truly* revolutionary...
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Although this move by MS is smart, they are making it very easy for people to reuse the MS look and feel for presence within their own apps.
Posted by Carl At 19:08:38 On 26/08/2005 | - Website - |