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Nagesh Pabbisetty
General Manager, Unified Communications Group -MSIDC

Nagesh joined Microsoft 2.5 years ago and moved to India after living in the US for 20 years. He came to Microsoft from RealNetworks. where he was the Vice President of Consumer Products & Support with full P&L responsibility for the company's flagship product RealPlayer, and development responsibilities for DRM, mobile and living room products technologies. Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Helix line of business and Real Broadcast Network with P&L responsibility for B2B products and B2B services businesses, respectively. With substantial experience in the Internet services and software industries, Nagesh moved to RealNetworks from Prodigy Communications Corp where he served as the Managing Director of Broadband DSL, Dial-up and Wireless Internet portals & products. Prior to Prodigy, he spent over 10 years with Xerox Corporation.

Overview

Make Microsoft Unified Communications ubiquitous through devices such as deskphones and mobile phones and through applications.

The UC products group at MSIDC develops desktop and mobile software that combines user presence and availability with voice and messaging communication modalities for a rich, person-centric communication experience. The focus of the group is on the Office Communicator Phone Edition, and Mobile Office Communicator for a variety of mobile platforms.

We Shipped

2008

  • EasyAssist (EA) 2.0 Release To Operations in June
  • Office Communicator Phone Edition v2 in December
  • Communicator Mobile Java Edition Client and Server v1 in December

2007

  • Delivered Office Communicator Phone Edition v1 in October

Showcase

Office Communicator Phone Edition

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition is the first generation Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone which is directly compatible with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
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Office Communicator Mobile

The 2007 version of Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile is an enterprise messaging client for mobile devices.
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Teams

Office Communicator Phone Edition (OCPE)

The Office Communicator Phone Edition (OCPE) team focuses on designing and developing the software for Microsoft’s Voice-over-IP deskphone. This next generation phone supports up-to-date contacts information with presence and availability, directory search, unified call log, enterprise telephony features, and visual voice mail, all with an intuitive and rich user interface.

OCPE, in conjunction with Microsoft Office Communication Server, is designed to address the following user pain areas:

  • Communications chaos
  • Phone tag, voice mail jail, e-mail overload
  • Too many devices, too little time
  • Complexity of using advanced enterprise telephony features

Office Communicator Mobile

Office Communicator Mobile (CoMo) is a class of UC applications developed for different mobile platforms. CoMo extends the reach of Microsoft UC solutions to the information worker on the move thereby making presence aware comunication truly ubiquitous.

CoMo 1.0 was the first enterprise grade communications software for the mobile device, integrating presence, search and VoIP on Windows Mobile devices for the enterprise segment. This was followed by CoMo 2.0 for Windows Mobile devices, which improved the 1.0 feature set and performance.

Subsequently, the MSIDC UC products team started working on CoMo Java Edition to address feature phones, which form the majority of devices used by information workers. This solution is a combination of a JME-based thin client and a mobility server that provides optimized mobile access to UC features such as contacts, presence, directory search, instant messaging, and voice call control.

CoMo for S60 addresses the most popular smartphone platform, the Nokia S60. This application will provide UC features integrated with phone functions like contacts and messaging, and will support Voice over Wireless LAN. Communicator clients for other popular smartphone platforms are in the works.

Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”). MSIDC is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. All work performed by MSIDC is approved by Microsoft and is in conjunction with development efforts at Microsoft and its other affiliated development centers. Microsoft owns all rights to the products mentioned herein.