If you have not used your computer during the last
20 minutes, Instant Messaging Service automatically sets your status
to Away.???
Sound familiar? If not, fl ip back a few pages. As you can see, the intent was good, but the
technology was not quite there yet. However, this really was the foundation for LCS 2003.
At this stage, having ???presence??? indicators is great, but do I really want to change this every
time I go into a meeting? Or if I??™m away from the PC for 20 minutes? And what with Y2K,
the introduction of Active Directory, and those ugly little Active Directory Connectors, did
we really want to worry about rolling out ???IM???? And what about the fact that the IM client
was the Windows Messenger client, which was outdated the minute it was released (Figure 1.8)?
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In any case, Microsoft made another run at this three years later. This time, however,
it decided it was a better move to separate the product from the Exchange bundle.
LCS 2003
We??™re not going to spend much more than a couple of lines describing LCS 2003, simply
because there isn??™t much to say. We were still forced to use the Windows Messenger client,
and communications functionality was greatly limited to inside the corporate network in
most cases. The only good things to say about LCS 2003 are:
?– Microsoft began to offer presence services to other applications, such as Outlook 2003.
?– Microsoft was wise enough to keep the product going, and improve it with LCS 2005.
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