Behold the Gumdrop! (RTC Presence Toolkit announced)

Microsoft has now formally announced the "RTC Presence Toolkit" at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2005. If you were at my presentation at the Office Developer Conference UK last month, you saw a demo of the beta version - which is variously referred to as the "Persona" control and the 'Gumdrop' control due to the new icons used by Office Communicator :-)

The toolkit will make it way easier for developers to add presence, communications and contextual collaboration to their own applications. Gumdrops everywhere! The toolkit should hopefully be released in July - keep watching for the release to msdn!

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 14, 2005
  I noticed that Graham and Mary Jo Foley have been talking about the RTC presence tooklit which was announced...
• Anonymous
  August 08, 2005
  
  Recently I enthused about the planned RTC Presence Toolkit, which would provide an easy way for...
• Anonymous
  May 29, 2007
  Recently I enthused about the planned RTC Presence Toolkit, which would provide an easy way for developers