Microsoft Releases 'Greenwich' Beta

The first beta of Microsoft's next-generation real-time collaboration and messaging platform, code-named Greenwich, was released on Thursday. The Greenwich beta includes enterprise instant messaging and tools for customers to create solutions based on presence -- knowing when someone is online -- and IM.

Greenwich integrates with MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises, a new service for connecting businesses and consumers using instant messaging. The beta supports voice and video communication, along with conversation logging.


"The delivery of this beta represents a milestone in the development of the 'Greenwich' technology, which is a component of delivering Microsoft's overall real-time collaboration vision," said Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president of the Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit at Microsoft, in Thursday's announcement.


Greenwich will debut commercially mid-year, shortly after the release of Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has already begun making plans for Greenwich v2, scheduled to break ground in Q2 of 2004.


"We seek to profoundly change how corporations communicate, by bringing together best-of-breed presence and instant-messaging technologies with enterprise-grade control and manageability. Presence-based communications will revolutionize the way information workers collaborate, in the same way e-mail changed corporate communications in the late 1980s and early 1990s," said Gupta.

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