2014-02-19
Microsoft showed off a video call between Skype and another video messaging service used by many businesses around the world, Lync, at an industry conference.
This is not a hot new app for the consumer, but this integration does feed the trend of “bring your own device” (BYOD) to work. Lync integrates with other Microsoft server based applications and allows voice, video and chat features in an enterprise environment without having to use the regular phone network.
Now, Skype will have some integration with that environment. Lync servers could already determine if a Skype user was ...