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 ...

Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, promises to change the way businesses do business by ...

What's the scoop on licensing? Is Lync for everyone? These and other questions are answered. Microsoft Lync is becoming a popular topic of conversation--partly because it's so interesting, and partly ...

Company chairman and co-founder Bill Gates helps demo Microsoft's newest communication product, which combines IM, audio and video chat, and a voice service. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

Entering a phoneless world when switching over to VoIP and a unifed communications suite has cultural and technical challenges. The Marquette University IT group offers three tips on transitioning ...

Microsoft announced the release of a module that enables Lync Online management via PowerShell scripting commands. The Windows Power Shell Module for Lync Online can be downloaded here. It enables ...

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 ...

Since the dawn of the Internet, software companies have predicted it will replace the traditional phone system. That has started happening in some areas, with the rise of Skype for Web-based phone ...

According to Yanzhao Zhang, a program manager on the Lync team, the new reporting solution will enable IT users see what kinds of devices were used to take part in peer-to-peer communications or ...

Microsoft will be launching the Microsoft-hosted version of its Lync unified-communications server, known as Lync Online, alongside the rest of Office 365 this summer. At the Microsoft TechEd 2011 ...

It looks like, in true Microsoft tradition, the third time is the charm. The new Lync Server 2010 unified communication server is not merely a relabeling of the previous Office Communications Server ...

Microsoft has published its planned pricing and licensing plans for its Lync Server 2010 and related client-access-license (CAL) clients. Lync is the new name for Microsoft's Office Communications ...