In that sense, Lync - a combination of "link" and "sync" - is about connecting people in new ways, anytime, anywhere. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2Īnd, of course, 'OCS' - what most people call all of the aboveĪt the same time that we needed one name to help unify things with this release, we also wanted to make sure that the new name really reflects the big product transformation with this release. As you know, today we have a pretty varied set of names, some of which are so long we can't fit them in our own product list or in product UI (check out the Nokia phone UI for a good example): There's been quite a bit of speculation on this to date, and most of you have probably played with the new updated releases, gotten the TAP communications on this or seen the rumors on the net. Microsoft's Kirk Gregersen, Lync Product Management said:Ī key part of the release is the re-branding to Microsoft Lync. Today, Microsoft announced the new name change and they've made the "bits" available to download to the public. Microsoft OCS 2007 is now Microsoft Lync. Well, it turns out I was right to theorize that Lync was the new name for OCS 2007. But wasn't the new name supposed to be Microsoft MCS? Then Microsoft just got fancy and changed the "i" to a "y" in Lync. After reading the description of the downloads last week, I wrote, "I'll be damned if that doesn't sound exactly like the feature-set of OCS/MCS or whatever the heck the new name will be called." Certainly the name made sense, since I thought it was a combination of "link" with a "c" for communications. When I saw something called Microsoft Lync on Twitter I was intrigued. Last week I wrote an article titled " Microsoft Lync 2010 - New Product? Or New OCS Name?" based off of a couple new downloads on Microsoft's site I found via Twitter.
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