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.
via thenewstribe.com