Microsoft is coming with yet another technology which will eliminate the need to even having a phone number for a person instead you just need to have the person in your contacts in Live Messenger and will appear in a mobile user’s address book and it will do the rest.

In one transcript of an early May speech Gates gave in Japan:

“Right now the mobile phone, the desktop phone, the e-mail that you have on the PC, or instant messaging, these are all very different things, and the issues about how much of your information or your schedule, your current activity you share with people who communicate with you is not well designed…. By bringing together all of these kinds of communication, we can greatly simplify them. We can get rid of phone numbers, have it so when you say you want to contact someone, based on who you are and where that person is, they can decide whether to take the call or take a message about that, and so a great efficiency improvement that can be made there.”

Probably the idea is to create an online version of persons who will use this technology and will have lot of things integrated like address and phone numbers. Now this technology working on your phone will work similar what we do on voice call on messenger services. Just call the person.

This is a good idea but we will have to wait and see how many people adopt it. Thanks to Mary Jo for his post where she has more details.

Tags: address book, desktop phone, messenger services, mobile user, phone numbers