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 ...

Microsoft's newest unified communications offering is showing some gains after being on the market for one year, with partners aiding in the cause. Today represents the one-year birthday of Microsoft ...

Communication has changed in ways that are nothing short of profound. As businesses reorganize to be more agile and responsive, workers find themselves needing new ways to stay connected to their ...

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 announced that enterprise client access licenses (CAL) for Lync Server will cost $107, a price cut of $32 per user over the previous version of Microsoft’s communications software.

Microsoft is rebranding its Lync unified communication products as "Skype for Business." The company announced the name change, as well as some target dates for the next versions of the offering on ...

More than three years after acquiring Skype, Microsoft today said it would rebrand its semi-rival Lync corporate communications platform as “Skype for Business.” The name change will become official ...

Microsoft today formally announced Lync, it’s next generation of Office Communication Server (formerly known as OCS 14). Once again Microsoft declared that Lync means the death of the PBX. Now that ...

Microsoft will demonstrate on Tuesday for the first time an integration between its Lync enterprise IM, audio and video conferencing server and its Skype consumer counterpart, the latest Microsoft ...

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 Lync, which is available in a trial download to anyone and will be available to business customers on Dec. 1 in 38 languages and 150 countries, weaves together enterprise VoIP, instant ...

Microsoft has announced that enterprise CAL (client access licenses) for Lync Server will cost $107, a price cut of $32 per user over the previous version of Microsoft’s communications software.