AT&T and Microsoft Sign Global Strategic Agreement

AT&T to leverage Microsoft Connected Services Framework to develop new integrated IP communications services.

AT&T and Microsoft Corp. today announced an alliance which would see AT&T deploy Microsoft Connected Services Framework as the foundation of its Microsoft.NET-based service-oriented architecture (SOA), which integrates an array of inter-operable web-based, functional capabilities in a simplified, streamlined manner. This will enable AT&T to provide a consistent service interface to its back-office systems for delivering fully managed, on-demand IP communications services.

Source: Wired News