WASHINGTON: The next version of Lync is going to become Skype for Business with a new client experience, new server release and updates to the service in Office 365 in the first half of 2015, says vice-president for Skype Gurdeep Pall.
Pall says we believe that Skype for Business will again transform the way people communicate by giving organisations reach to hundreds of millions of Skype users outside the walls of their business.
Users can see in the screenshots that we’re adopting the familiar Skype icons for calling, adding video and ending a call.
We have added the call monitor from Skype, which keeps an active call visible in a small window even when a user moves focus to another application.
Current Lync Server customers will be able to take advantage of these capabilities simply by updating from Lync Server 2013 to the new Skype for Business Server in their datacenters.No new hardware is required. For Office 365 customers, it’s even simpler. We’ll do the required updates. And because communications is mission-critical, this release meets a new bar for reliability and performance.
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