Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by martyvis on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:59PM (#11896364)

Skype for Business (and it's predecessor Lync) owns corporate voice and collaboration market

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by dsl on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:52PM (#11897532)

Cisco WebEx and Jabber own corporate voice communication (mostly because everyone uses Cisco VoIP phones). Skype is used mostly in the SMB market.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by skrebbel on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:33PM (#11896722)

But it didn't back then, and it's only called Skype because MS acquired Skype, not the other way around. At the time of the acquisition, comparing Skype to Office Communicator (as it was called before Lync) was a stretch at best.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by MikeHolman on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:10PM (#11897690)

Skype for Business is just rebranded Lync. AFAIK there aren't any new features that were integrated across from Skype. Hell, it's still lync.exe.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by engi_nerd on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:27PM (#11897823)

We just 'upgraded' from Lync to Skype for Business and as far as I can tell it's exactly the same program with slightly different UI chrome.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by noxxten on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:19PM (#11896567)

Unfortunately.

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