Microsoft plans to incorporate Media-Streams' technologies into its corporate IM platform, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS), and its Office productivity tools. Media-Streams' technology is already integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.
The move will help Microsoft move toward its goal of uniting communications such as e-mail, IM, SMS, voice, and audio, video and Web conferencing, said Ed Wadbrook, director of VOIP strategies for Microsoft's Real Time Collaboration group.