Say goodbye to Microsoft Lync, hello to Skype for Business

Microsoft is upgrading its Lync unified communication platform to look and feel more like the familiar consumer version of Skype and changing its name to Skype for Business.

By the middle of next year the company will drop the name Lync from its unified communication platform altogether and use the name of the better known consumer platform that Microsoft bought in 2011 for $ 8.5 billion.

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