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.

The long collision course between Microsoft Lync and Skype will end next year in a fiery crash, with Lync perishing in the flames. Like a phoenix, however, Lync will emerge—reborn as Skype for ...

Microsoft today announced it has completed the integration of its enterprise-focused Lync tool into the consumer-based Skype service. As a result, Lync and Skype users around the world can now connect ...

Genesys, a provider of customer service solutions, has integrated Microsoft Lync with its customer service platform, creating a combined voice platform that enables companies to unify contact center ...

Microsoft has begun integrating Lync, its enterprise-focused communications service, with Skype according to multiple user reports that we’re seeing. Back in February, the Redmond company announced ...

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 ...

Businesses hoping to connect Skype users with Lync users via their corporate Lync Server but haven’t started the process yet are in for a wait. That’s because it can take 30 days to activate accounts ...

Is Lync moving into the contact center? Slowly. It seems it is still is a little too early to say surely. I have to thank Matt Brunk for his quite unintentional lead-in to my first post of 2012. His ...