Much less than per month following its Internet launch of Workplace Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft is beginning to prep consumers for what;s coming in the follow-on release.About the Microsoft Austrian companion weblog on TechNet, company officials shared updates regarding licensing adjustments inside the operates for OCS.OCS is Microsoft’s integrated instant-messaging/conferencing server. It's among the centerpieces with the company’s unified-communications stable of goods.Not being fluent in German,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, I used Windows Live Translator to study the new OCS weblog entry. Right here will be the highlights from your February 23 post: The “Wave 14″ OCS release — which I;ve heard called Workplace Communications Server 2010 — is slated for 2010 availability . (In the past, OCS has lagged the Office client/server releases by a bit, so it;s still hard to say definitively whether Workplace 14 will debut in late 2009 or early 2010. Workplace 14 is currently within the alpha-test stage.)The existing two Client Access Licenses (CALs) for OCS are becoming replaced by three as of the OCS 2010 release. With OCS today,
Office Home And Stude/nt 2010, users can choose the Standard CAL (for access to instant messaging and presence) or Enterprise (which adds access to conferencing and voice telephony. Starting with OCS 2010,
Office Pro 2010, a new third CAL,
Office Standard 2010 Key, known as the Voice CAL,
Office 2007 Pro Plus Key, will provide access to telephony and VOIP. Telephony access will no longer be part with the Enterprise CAL and the price of that CAL will decline around 23 percent, according to the weblog posting.Microsoft is allowing buyers under Software Assurance to grandfather inside the new Voice CAL if they agree to buy it before July 2009.