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Company cites lack of marketing help from Microsoft, hopes document conferencing on the Wet is the ticket.
With data-conferencing software now installed on millions of PCs, MCI Communications Corp. officials are trying to figure out why hardly anyone has subscribed to their Document Conferencing service.
Among the apparent reasons: a continuing search for compelling applications and the lack of expected marketing assistance from Microsoft Corp.
Two years after MCI's purchase of Chicago-based Darome Teleconferencing, Inc., now known as networkMCI Conferencing, MCI is experiencing an audioconferencing boom. But MCI's multipoint Document Conferencing service is drawing few users.
Announced in October 1995, MCI Document Conferencing allows as many as 23 participants to collaborate on the same document, sharing text, graphics and scanned images. A new version to be delivered this summer, called Net Conferencing, will enable users to dial in...