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Group Chat for Microsoft Office: Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Parlano

Adds group chat software to its Office Communications server and client products
By Web 2.0 News Desk
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August 31, 2007 01:00 AM EDT
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As it continues to build out its "unified communications" offering, Microsoft has swooped to buy Parlano, the US-based company spun out of Swiss bank UBS to develop and market the MindAlign group chat application used by  Deutsche Bank, Putnam Investments and others.

It will be adding the group chat feature to Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator.

‘Parlano has been successful in meeting the communications needs of companies in financial services and other vertical markets,’ said Microsoft’s corporate vice president of unified communications Gurdeep Singh Pall.

‘Parlano’s expertise added to Microsoft’s unified communications offering will deliver customers the most complete instant messaging and group chat product.,’ he added.

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