Microsoft created their Communicator product to look and feel very much like the successful MSN Messenger. Communicator though, is designed to be an in-company IM program that hooks in beautifully with your Exchange Server, and with a VoIP phone too!
But here's where it gets sweet.
Microsoft made a Communicator client for Windows Mobile devices. The guy in my company who's in charge of Corporate Messaging applications has been tinkering with the Communicator 2007 server, and so has made available the 2007 client for Windows Mobile devices.
In essence, I can now have/continue instant messaging conversations with anyone in my company when I leave the office. The mobile client works very well and simply, although it does lag a fraction. The server is quite happy to have both clients online at once (both your PC and mobile device), and when a new conversation is started by someone else to you, it sends out a notification to both devices, and whichever device accepts the notification, future messages from that conversation go there. What's cool is that if another buddy starts a conversation, and you accept it on the other device, that coversation will be continued there - so it is happy to handle two seperate conversations on two seperate devices from the one account.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
But here's where it gets sweet.
Microsoft made a Communicator client for Windows Mobile devices. The guy in my company who's in charge of Corporate Messaging applications has been tinkering with the Communicator 2007 server, and so has made available the 2007 client for Windows Mobile devices.
In essence, I can now have/continue instant messaging conversations with anyone in my company when I leave the office. The mobile client works very well and simply, although it does lag a fraction. The server is quite happy to have both clients online at once (both your PC and mobile device), and when a new conversation is started by someone else to you, it sends out a notification to both devices, and whichever device accepts the notification, future messages from that conversation go there. What's cool is that if another buddy starts a conversation, and you accept it on the other device, that coversation will be continued there - so it is happy to handle two seperate conversations on two seperate devices from the one account.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
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sounds pretty good to me.
oooo i shall have to lab that! hey do you guys have federation turned on? we finally got around to setting it up last week, so we can 'federate' if we want :)