Microsoft kept its promise and has released on the IT market in the first trimester of this year a series of official beta versions for OCS 2007 and the client Office Communicator. In addition, as an anticipation of the most important Microsoft enterprise event in the year to come, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer, announced that Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 would appear launched together. Such an event will take place in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008; in this manner, we will be witnesses of the “burst of the bubble" of hundreds of launch events that will take place around the world in approximately the same time interval.



OCS 2007 is the kernel of the Microsoft’s approach for integrating the structures for e-mail, instant messaging, voice and video into a unified communication system. The program is a server based on the SIP Protocol (Session Initiation Protocol), which can carry out functions of router or switch for the IP traffic of voice or video, and for IM or web conference sessions.

The company has big plans for OCS 2007. Jeff Raikes, the president of the businesses department at Microsoft, has declared, “In three years, at least 100 millions of people will be able to make a phone call through Outlook, SharePoint and other Microsoft Office Systems applications. The clients will have nothing but to gain through the VoIP solutions that will approximately cost maximum half of how much they cost in present".

Microsoft has situated OCS 2007 at the same level of quality and efficiency with Exchange 2007, released on the market during the last year, as a messaging unified policy.

Windows Server 2008 (operational with virtualization technologies and incorporated Web) makes it possible for you to increase the flexibility and reliability of your server’s communications. All of the new added features to this Windows Server, such as new virtualization tools, security improvements and Web resources will definitely help you reduce important costs, save precious time and provide a platform for an optimized and dynamic datacenter.

All of the new tools (IIS7, Windows PowerShell and Windows Server Manager) are very potent, giving you the possibility and ability of having superior management over your design, administration and /or supervision tasks and all of your servers and streamline Web.

In addition, to make you appreciate even more the soon-to-come Windows Server 2008, all of the advanced reliability and security upgrading features (for example, Network Access Protection and the Read-Only Domain Controller) protect your server environment. Moreover, they strengthen the operating system making it a more resistant and consistent one and make sure that you control a well-built establishment to expand all the activities associated with your business area.

There is an entire assortment of fundamentals as well as subtle differences in the basic structure of Windows Server 2008 comparing to other older versions of Windows servers. They could be able to lead towards a remarkable transmutation not only in the manner used in companies, but also in the material and consistent configuration of networks where it functions as the most important, chief operating system.