Part I. Understanding Unified Communications
In this part, Chapter 1, introduces the Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) platform. This chapter highlights the challenges of UC and the opportunities that these challenges offer developers. UC opens up a new category of applications that were previously reserved for specialized systems with limited public interfaces. UC makes it easier to build instant messaging (IM) and voice or video solutions into existing and new applications. Chapter 1 also provides insight into the future direction of the UC platform.
Chapter 2, provides an overview of the APIs that are available. If you are unsure which API to use to build your application, this chapter helps you select the most appropriate one by providing ...
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