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 ...

The Office 365 services and the Office Web Apps aren't the only parts of Office getting regular updates under Microsoft's new 'continuous development' approach: there are new tools coming to Office ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 indicated this month that Lync Server 2013 is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2. Support is enabled by applying an update that was released this month, according to a Microsoft blog, ...

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 ...

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 is at it again, preparing to roll out new versions of its suite of business servers. Last week, I detailed eight great new features in the forthcoming Exchange 2013. This week, I turn my ...

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.

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 ...