Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, which was released in early 2009, does a credible job of providing presence awareness, instant messaging, conferencing and voice capabilities.

Every once in a very long while, I get to review a product that strikes me as a stepping stone toward the future. Microsoft Lync 2010 combines instant messaging, VoIP calling, live meetings, and ...

Lab testers see significant improvements in quality and feature/function. Testing lab partner Miercom recently conducted testing on the just released Microsoft Lync Server 2010 unified communications ...

You may not have noticed, but Microsoft is making a strong play for a lucrative piece of the unified communications (UC) pie with Microsoft Lync 2010, its next-generation Office Communications Server.

…Fortunately for businesses, there is. Microsoft Lync is Microsoft’s server platform for unified communications and it an easy-to-use but powerful tool. All told, it is the future of communication for ...