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Nortel's liquidation could cripple UC relationship with Microsoft

Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft. Read full story

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The Email Standards Project -- a group dedicated to improving Web standards support and accessibility in e-mail -- has started a grassroots Twitter campaign asking Microsoft to improve the way Outlook 2010 will render HTML-based e-mail.

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One-third of 1,200 organizations (33%) plan to convert their application environments away from a traditional, client-server model to one based on virtualization and cloud computing over the next two years, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft.

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As Nortel deconstructs, Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis thinks it's unlikely much will come of the Nortel-Microsoft unified communications partnership in the future.

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June 25, 2009

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