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nojitter.com - 1/13/2009
Xobni's Biggest Fans
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There's an interesting little tidbit buried near the bottom of this NYT story about the Cisco Xobni investment : Apparently Microsoft employees are the biggest single group of Xobni users; some 20% of Microsoft employees use Xobni, according to the Times .

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InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... and here ) But Xobni isn't just any Outlook plugin; it's an Outlook plugin that 20% of Microsoft's own employees reportedly use, and one that was talked up by Bill Gates, who used to be a Microsoft employee. And why this matters is, it shows that Cisco isn't ceding an inch to Microsoft in the Unified Communications market. The conventional wisdom has been that Microsoft has the inside track of the Unified Communications race because they "own" the user desktop in most enterprises. And the argument is that they "own" that desktop because their email client and office ...

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