Technics: Personal Computers: MicroSoft's dazzling "unified communications"

MicroSoft touts new unified communications:

One inbox. One interface.

Unified Communications technologies eliminates the separation between phones and computers. Email, voicemail, faxes, IM and calendar events all arrive in one place: the inbox. A single, familiar interface for PC, web or mobile devices makes it easy to use, no matter where you are. Suddenly, a video conference with real-time document sharing isn’t just possible – it’s less costly than collaboration by phone, not to mention taking a plane. When communication is faster and easier, productivity goes up and travel costs go down.

Technotes, by Technowlb

One unified communications platform

Microsoft Unified Communications solutions - Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 - don’t just make your people productive, they make you efficient. You can improve productivity while reducing the costs of communication systems by up to 50%. Instead of dealing with separate communication silos, you’re managing an integrated email, phone and conference system with built in protections that help increase security, compliance and availability. Communications work well, are cost effective, and are easy to manage, all within a common Windows-based infrastructure.

This new technical product fascinates me. I'm way below the learning curve on these matters, but I sure can tell how it's different for me technically at present, and in the techno-fantasy horizon MS (that my budget doesn't allow me to acquire).

-- Technowlb