Microsoft now has 20,000 employees using the Lync 2010 beta, as well as 100 enterprise ... based systems are quickly becoming a relic of the past," Pall wrote in a March blog post.

Microsoft later merged its Lync business communications platform ... about 10 times the number of users that Skype had at the time. “In the past two years, the number of minutes spent in ...

I have great pride, and great joy, that the thing that we built has continued to flourish,” former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says in advance of the 50th anniversary.

Previously Office Communications Server (OCS), which evolved from Live Communications Server, Lync Server uses the address books maintained by Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft Lync is the ...