On December 5, Microsoft announced that it is beginning the rollout of the second piece of Skype-Lync federation by turning on video integration between the two services. "We're excited to announce ...

The expansion and evolution of unified communications calls for necessary competition within the industry, of course, but it also calls for collaboration. Global AV and UC solutions provider Whitlock ...

Federation, SIP connections, and ROI have proven to be among the top concerns. In mid-September I had the opportunity to keynote the Enterprise Connect "Microsoft Lync: Progress in the Enterprise" ...

“In the pervasive video era, it is all about the user experience. The new center-of-table, panoramic video solutions from Polycom will provide Lync customers with a richer, more interactive ...

Lync makes communication easier and could be a money saver, but it has the potential to be a worker distraction and eat up network bandwidth Lync, the next generation of Microsoft’s Office ...

As Microsoft launched its Lync unified communications product last week, CIO.com’s Shane O’Neill investigated how one company is using it to improve customer communications. During a discussion panel ...

Your goal may be to standardize on a single vendor, but it may not be practical to do so in the near term. Overview There has been much debate about which vendor products offer the best collaborative ...

What bothers me about Lync is the pricing/licensing model. Why does Lync-to-Lync voice & video requires upgrading to "enterprise" CALs? Shouldn't this functionality ...

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 ...