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Microsoft is expected to announce today that their Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 is expected to ship during the 4th quarter of 2004. The company also announced that they would open up communication on its enterprise instant messenger server to competitors Yahoo and AOL.

According to ComputerWorld.com, this agreement would allow AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN's messenger to communicate with each other using the LCS. Taylor Collyer, Microsoft's senior director for LCS, said, "This has been the top request from our corporate customers. They have clearly told us that anything we could possibly do to make this happen would make them the happiest."

Purchasable modules that have to be added on would provide the link between MSN Messenger and the other IM services. "The big winner here will be the enterprise customer," Collyer said.

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