Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates
revealed his company's collaboration and communication vision
yesterday and unveiled two new Microsoft Office System products,
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (code-named Istanbul) and
Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1), and
one new service, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005. Gates also
highlighted some of the technologies that Microsoft plans to ship in
the next Office version, code-named Office 12.