Microsoft reached the released-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone on Wednesday for Lync, its next-generation universal communications platform. The company will launch Lync at an event in New York Nov.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alyson Behr has more than 15 years of experience writing about technology and has been a contributing editor for leading product-testing labs. Want a flexible, enterprise-ready unified messaging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations mostly expect to save on travel, teleconferencing and meeting expenses by adopting Microsoft's Lync unified communications solution, according to a recent survey conducted on behalf of ...

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 ...

When Marquette University started construction on three campus buildings a year and a half ago, the IT department saw it as a good time to deploy VoIP (Voice over IP) from the ground up. [ See also: ...