Microsoft provided an updated roadmap for its Lync unified-communications platform on February 19, the opening day of the company’s first Lync Conference in San ...

The third of Microsoft's new Office servers available in public beta (Customer Preview) form is its next-generation unified-communications product, Lync Server 2013. Microsoft officials have said ...

With Microsoft working hard to fold the venerable MSN Messenger network and client into Skype, Microsoft is left with two messaging products: Skype and Lync. The future of these apps is integration ...

Lync Server 2013 can federate with Skype, which is huge new feature that greatly enhances Microsoft's UC portfolio and may explain the $8.5 billion premium Microsoft paid for Skype. You can now fully ...

Lync 2013 has a variety of benefits that businesses can take advantage of to make internal and external communications more effective and efficient. Lync, which comes bundled with Office 365 business ...

The benefits of unified communications are becoming clear to organizations of all sizes. Bringing together voice and video and integrating with e-mail helps workers who are spread across different ...

Microsoft is continuing to make strides in their Lync platform. While the big news two days ago was the Office 2013 news, including support for touch and cloud support, you may have missed the ...

The load balancing requirements for Lync 2013 will be quite similar to those of Microsoft's previous-generation server for unified communications. At least that's the viewpoint of an expert with Kemp ...

Microsoft has rolled out the first phase of integrating Lync and Skype. Merging the two together makes both services better, but an even better solution would be to eliminate one of them altogether.

Skype, Messenger, Facebook and other apps provide endless ways to stay in touch, but for the professional business person, there is generally Lync, as mandated by the IT department happily glued to ...

Microsoft has released an update to Lync 2013 for iPhone that lets users join a meeting if they don't have a Lync account, view more information about meeting participants, easily start a group ...

Microsoft has updated Lync 2013 for iPad with support for Hebrew and Arabic. Lync 2013 for iPad extends the power of Lync to your mobile device – including voice & video over wireless, rich presence, ...