Keating Hammers Microsoft LCS

Tom has a very, very spot on and insightful post about the Microsoft Office Communicator platform and what it means.

I'm not at all surprised about the connectivity to the public IM networks like AOL's AIM, Yahoo and others but I don't see Skype or Gizmo amongst them.

But the one thing that I don't see is the connectivity to the Mobile World beyond working on the Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. For Microsoft to really play this game the right way they need to be more open, not less, and as Tom so candidly points out, they've gone that route again.