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One of the big questions when Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion was what would happen to Lync, the Redmond company's unified communication service.

Microsoft. The upcoming Skype for Business client on Windows looks like a slightly-tweaked version of the current Lync client. Although the two will continue to focus on different pools of users ...

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 ...

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 plans to release its Lync unified communications app for Android tablets this summer. It also will deliver federated video across Lync and Skype before the end of 2014.

On Tuesday, Microsoft updated its Lync collaboration software for Windows 8.1, a relatively minor update that still makes one wonder why Lync and Microsoft’s Skype aren’t a single product.

Microsoft demos video calls between Skype and Lync, coming ‘in a few months’ by Todd Bishop on February 18, 2014 at 9:07 am February 18, 2014 at 10:04 am ...