(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Microsoft and Nortel Networks have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated ways to communicate with each other.
The wide-ranging deal, which can be extended, is focused on selling high-tech business communications offerings to corporations.
No financial details were released.
Microsoft has put enormous effort behind such technology, which seeks to more closely link communications ranging from email and instant messaging to video conferencing and even traditional telephone calls.
The idea is that employees can more easily locate one another and work together, regardless of whether their colleagues are sitting at a computer in a nearby cubicle, driving home from work or stuck in an airport.
In a statement, Toronto-based Nortel said it believed it could see more than $1 billion in revenue from the deal.
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