Microsoft has rebranded Lync with Skype for Business. The company is promising Skype for Business will remain an Office 365 service when it replaces Lync sometime “in the first half of 2015.
“In the first half of 2015, the next version of Lync will become Skype for Business with a new client experience, new server release and updates to the service in Office 365. We believe that Skype for Business will again transform the way people communicate by giving organizations reach to hundreds of millions of Skype users outside the walls of their business.”
posted Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president for Skype in a blog.
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Users in Skype for Business will able to call regular Skype users from the application. The interface for Skype for Business is also getting update with new icons and the ability to keep an active call visible in a small window when you are using another application. Users of the Skype and Skype for Business will have two different usernames on the same service.