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’s Lync instant messaging service, part of the Microsoft Office 365 package, suffered an outage Monday morning and was still inaccessible for some users as of noon Pacific time. In an update ...

Following the roll out of Microsoft’s Skype Translator earlier this month, it was announced this week that Lync, Microsoft’s instant messaging and video conferencing software for Office (previously ...

Every once in a very long while, I get to review a product that strikes me as a stepping stone toward the future. Microsoft Lync 2010 combines instant messaging, VoIP calling, live meetings, and ...

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 ...

Office 2013 extends the Lync federation model to include IM/communications clients including Skype, as well as improving integration with the other Office applications. Microsoft on Monday unveiled ...

Lync Mobile provides another important piece of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work puzzle. This article was co-written by Dino Caputo of enableUC. Microsoft Lync is the upgrade to Microsoft ...

Lync, the next generation of Microsoft’s Office Communications Server software, was unveiled yesterday in New York City, complete with a surprise appearance from Bill Gates via Lync’s video conference ...

Microsoft is looking at creating a bridge between Lync, its enterprise IM, voice and video communications product, and Skype as part of its broader initiative to extend the Office platform, a company ...

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 ...