OCS wave 14

Well I sat on the webcast on Tuesday and am still not much the wiser. Summarised below are some of the scant details that were revealed.
 
The key points were:

• There is a new communicator client,
• The client has some interesting Sharepoint integration but the details were not disclosed. I think it requires SPS 2010 but not sure.
• You can run Silverlight apps inside the client and get full access to
• everything.
• Voice now includes Branch office survivability (using local appliances)

• Enhanced E911 support for North America.
• RCC and Dual Forking are going away. They still work but it looks like being deprecated.
• An interesting part is around SIP Trunk, OCS and IP PBX being able to share presence.
• Lots of new phones - "Wave 14 is optimised for the IP telephone".

No details about the beta were forthcomming.

There is also the announcements made at VoiceCon of course and they can be found here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100324/tc_pcworld/microsofttoupdatecommunicationsserver