Microsoft wants to dominate the telephony market with software products that will bring together its existing email applications and integrate them with voice and video management products, said Anoop Gupta, vice president of Microsoft’s unified communications group, in a keynote address Tuesday at the VoiceCon Fall conference in San Francisco.

The company’s goal is to give users a single Microsoft platform for all their communication needs, including email, telephony, and videoconferencing. The biggest target will be the IP-PBX (Internet protocol private branch exchange).


Microsoft’s interest in the communications market stems from the huge opportunity it sees. The company estimates spending on voice, video, and email communications totals at least $40 billion a year.

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