Cisco is pleased to announce that Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 8.5 is now orderable and available for first customer shipment (FCS).
Product Overview Cisco Unified Personal Communicator is a client application that provides easy, unified access to your most frequently used communications applications and services—soft phone, presence, instant messaging (IM), visual voicemail, employee directory, communication history, voice, video, and web conferencing—to help you effectively communicate and collaborate from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Key Solution Benefits
Reduce Communication Delays with Rich Presence and Contact Information
Quickly Communicate with Borderless Enterprise-Class Instant Messaging
Bring Business-Class IP Telephony and Video to the Desktop
Accelerate Team Performance with Multiparty Conferencing and Collaboration
Accelerate Adoption with an Intuitive User Experience first introduced in CUPC 8.0
Release Highlights: CUPC 8.5
Supports High Availability failover capabilities introduced in Cisco Unified Presence 8.5
You can deploy high availability clustering in the same data center or over the WAN
Ability to escalate directly to Cisco WebEx Meetings from CUPC 8.5
Alternative Deployment Choice: use Meeting Place escalation introduced in CUPC 8.0
Microsoft Office integration enhancements include:
New Click-to-Call Ribbon for Microsoft Office applications, in addition to a click-to-call plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers
Office 2010 Contact Card integration for Presence light-up and Click to Communicate capabilities
Extensible DHTML tabs
You can provision up to three pages of HTML content as tabs in the main window
Use to provision Corporate Directory pages / access numbers or link to public web pages (eg. Weather.com or Twitter.com)
Windows 7 64 bit Operating System support
Microsoft Office 64 bit applications support
Administration and Provisioning Enhancements
Ability to disable Instant Messaging for CUPC 8.5 users
Ability to disable the Presence Availability Status capabilities
Ability to enable/disable Instant Messaging History / Logging and optional Call Logs disablement
Click-to-communicate im:uri protocol support
Click-to-communicate tel:uri was introduced with CUPC 8.0
CTI Servitude support
Enables CTI control of CUPC client from a separate application with the option to use CUPC for media termination while hiding the CUPC UI’s
Video support when using a desk phone for voice with Microsoft Windows 64-bit version
User Interface Enhancements
Introduction of a vertical panel for “Contacts”, “Rooms” and DHTML tabs
Search for contacts by number
CUPC client will remember the last size and position of all CUPC 8.5 windows
Reminder: Highlights from CUPC 8.0
Group chat
Persistent chat rooms
Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2010 Integration
Offline instant messages
Chat history
Wideband audio codec’s for higher fidelity audio
VGA and 720p high definition video resolutions
Support for deskphone control of the latest Cisco Unified IP Phone models
Video on the PC while in deskphone control mode
Ability to initiate & add participants to impromptu multiparty audio/video conference calls
Unified communications history—combines chat, visual voicemail, and call logs into a single interface
No that's slated for a later release. Personally I dont see that feature as being useful especially when people pass virus files etc. I see a lot of IT departments turning that off within their IM clients
Srini
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