Microsoft sees unified communications as a multibillion-dollar business.

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Don't be surprised to see Microsoft abandon its current unified communications branding--Microsoft Lync--and rechristen the product Skype for the Enterprise.

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But the deal is really about "unified communications, " in which Microsoft is competing with Cisco and others.

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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.

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