Microsoft released to manufacturing on December 19 Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), its core unified-communications platform.
R2 is a “minor” upgrade to OCS 2007, which Microsoft rolled out in the fall of 2007. OCS R2’s official “virtual launch” is February 3, 2009.
Microsoft is billing the R2 update to OCS as furthering its enterprise-voice, conferencing and collaboration and development-platform stories with its unified instant messaging/VOIP/conferencing product. Single-number reach and hosted audio conferencing are among the R2 update’s myriad features.