TMC’s Tom Keating reported the fact that Microsoft OCS will be called Lync going forward and the name is much more conducive as a Skype alternative as asking someone to Lync you sounds much better than asking them to OCS you. Tom and I recently went to Manhattan with a group of analysts and other media to get a demo of the system at Microsoft's Technology center and put it through its paces. We had a chance to see about a dozen or more machines with various endpoints and spent time listening to Jamie Stark the Senior Product Manager walk us through what this new release will do for customers.
The new Lync Server 2010 will be released soon and it has gotten better with age and can do lots of great things like integrate better with Microsoft Office, give you standalone voice – look Ma, no PBX, set up more easily, better federation support with MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo and AOL as well as support for activity feeds like Twitter, skill-based search allowing you to connect with an expert on any topic (with SharePoint integration) and much more.
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The new Lync Server 2010 will be released soon and it has gotten better with age and can do lots of great things like integrate better with Microsoft Office |
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the latest Office 2010 file formats and with the SharePoint collaboration server. In addition to the added Microsoft compatibility, they improve support |
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Besides converting Microsoft Office documents, images and other supported files into an Adobe PDF from a Web browser, users can combine documents into a |
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Additionally, the Nokia 9210 Communicator is the first Nokia product to support the most commonly used PC office applications – such as Microsoft Office |
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What is likely is that it will offer Microsoft Office file compatibility, including for Office 2007/2010 Open XML documents, as the Web version does today. |
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