Microsoft, Nortel set business communications pact

Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 22:09 [IST]

NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it has set an alliance with Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., the latest step in Microsoft's drive to promote software as a way to simplify how workers communicate with each other.

Under the agreement, the companies will develop traditional business phone systems into software, with a Microsoft unified communications software platform and Nortel software products to provide further advanced telephony functionality.

They will enter into a four-year agreement that can be extended, under which the companies will license some of each other's intellectual property and deploy the other's technologies in their corporate networks.

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