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 ...

Lync Server is a powerful communications platform, but there are several things you can do to further improve its performance. Microsoft Lync Server is a highly effective platform for voice and video ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making available mobile client versions of its Lync unified-communications client for a number of platforms this week. First up is the new Windows Phone 8 version of Lync 2013 Mobile.

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 announced plans this week to rename Lync, its unified communications platform for organizations. The next version of Lync -- both Lync Server and the Office 365 service called Lync Online -- ...

When Microsoft Lync for Android was first released back in 2011, it was still stuck in the 2010 era of user-interface design. As you can imagine, it looks severely outdated now when compared with ...

Microsoft announced today that two of its big-name communications services – consumer-facing Skype and enterprise-ready Lync – will now interoperate, meaning users can access their Lync contacts via ...

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.

Alyson Behr has more than 15 years of experience writing about technology and has been a contributing editor for leading product-testing labs. Want a flexible, enterprise-ready unified messaging ...

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 ...

After spending 2013 figuring out what to do with its various communication and collaboration tools, Microsoft’s focus in 2014 is not unified communications, but “universal” communications, executives ...