Microsoft to Collaborate with LG-Nortel on Windows-Based VoIP Phones

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Microsoft to Collaborate with LG-Nortel on Windows-Based VoIP Phones

7:00 am on May 29, 2006 | Category: Business, VoIP, Telephone, Software

Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with telecom equipment joint venture, LG-Nortel, to collaborate on VoIP products, specifically Windows CE-based IP communication terminals.

The MoU creates a strategic alliance covering joint Research and Development, marketing, and software licensing. This serves as an extension to a previous agreement where LG-Nortel developed a Windows CE 5-based multimedia SIP phone, and the world’s first widely available videophone running Windows CE 6.

A definitive agreement on this issue is expected within the next few months, at which time several new WinCE 6-based IP phones will be unveiled.

LG-Nortel CEO, Jae Ryung Lee, says that the alliance will ultimately “make a wide range of WinCE-based products available to Microsoft channel partners around the world.”