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'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 ...

Microsoft today announced it will be replacing its enterprise-focused instant messaging app Lync with a new Skype for Business tool. The company is promising Skype for Business will remain an Office ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a blog post last week, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Skype Gurdeep Pall revealed changes for Microsoft Lync with a new name, a new user interface, and new features. In his blog, Pall said, “In the ...

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.

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 plans to release a Lync app for Android tablets this summer, officials will announce during the opening keynote of its Lync Conference 2014on February 18. During the keynote at the Las Vegas ...

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 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 ...

Cloud-based Lync won’t be immediately available, but could eventually be a viable alternative to in-house software. Microsoft’s overhauled unified communications platform — Lync — will soon hit the ...