A couple of days ago I read an interview with Annop Gupta, Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Unified Communications Group about Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007. It was about simplifying the ways in which people work by bringing voice technologies to both servers. In my opinion both servers are really nice and full of innovative functionality, things we are waiting for. As stated in the interview it has some integration with SharePoint, Quote: “Also, when people go into a Microsoft Office SharePoint team site, they can view the availability of other team members and decide whom to contact. Similarly, these products share a single conversation history folder that tracks not only the e-mails that someone has sent but also the instant messages and telephone calls in a seamless way”. I have two questions about it: 1. If I’m looking for some knowledge, some questions needs to be answered by experts, is it possible to search for this knowledge, and in the search results you can see the owner with is status at that moment?  2. e-mail tracking, instant messages tracking and tracking of telephone calls. It sounds a bit scary to me in a way that a company is now able to track and trace everything you do. I know, it’s not the goal, but abuse is a possible issue in some organisations (and I prefer not to work for that kind of companies.) By the way, these server, Sharepoint, Office Communications Server and Exchange together are a fantastic service. Everything is in one place, use your outlook client to contact people by mail, IM or phone, I hope workflow can be used to, if a person whom you need is away, in a meeting or just busy, assign the email, IM or phonecall to another person with the same knowledge etc… So, I think Microsoft is going to race with these products. Just keep one thing in mind, Mobile communications will plug into the web in 2007. Yeah, and? It will have a big impact on the telecom providers with their GSM networks. WiMax will finally launch in 2007. Just like you have VoIP and sporadically there are Wi-Fi mobiles you can use at home, in 2007 their will be VoIP for mobile communications, with or without WiMax.