That hews to CEO Satya Nadella's push to define Microsoft as the "productivity" company, a message he hammered in July in a 3,100-word message to employees and one he stressed last week in an invite-only briefing with a handful of reporters, including ones from the New York Times and Fast Company. "This is also a recognition that the two are on a continuum, that people will use whatever tool makes the most sense to them at the time," Dawson said. Microsoft also hinted that Skype and Lync were destined for a closer relationship almost two years ago when it shifted the Lync team to the group responsible for Skype. What's a surprise is that it's taking as long as it has." "They've progressively talked about integrating the two so that they talked to each other, but they sat in different places, with different branding. " was always one of the big questions after Microsoft acquired Skype," Dawson said in a Tuesday interview. It's not surprising that Microsoft decided to drop Lync for Skype, said Jan Dawson, principal analyst at Jackdaw Research.
The Lync backend for commercial Office 365 customers will be updated by Microsoft, as is usual for the subscription-based, semi-cloud-based plans. The new Skype for Business clients - now available on Windows and Windows Phone as well as rival OSes including Android, iOS and OS X - will be accompanied by an update from Lync Server 2013 on the server side. Skype for Business customers will be able to reach Skype users not only for instant messaging chats and audio calls, but also for video calls, Microsoft said. The upcoming Skype for Business client on Windows looks like a slightly-tweaked version of the current Lync client.Īlthough the two will continue to focus on different pools of users, Skype for Business will include some elements of the consumer-Skype user interface (UI) and expand the current Lync-Skype interoperability. Since then, Microsoft has maintained two lines of instant messaging and video conferencing software - Skype for consumers and Lync for businesses - with the latter pitched as an inside-the-perimeter communications platform that also handles VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) telephony chores. The rebranding comes more than three years after Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion.
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