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Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Office Communicator and Microsoft Lync) and Microsoft Lync for Mac are instant messaging clients used with Skype for Business Server or Lync Online available with Microsoft Office 365. They are replacements for Windows Messenger, which was used with Microsoft Exchange Server. Both Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Lync for Mac are enterprise software; compared to Windows Live Messenger and later Skype, they have a different feature set that is targeted toward corporate environments. On 11 November 2014, Microsoft announced that in 2015 Lync would be replaced by Skype for Business. The latest version of the communication software combines features of Lync and the consumer Skype software. There are two user interfaces – organizations can switch their users from the default Skype for Business interface to the Skype for Business (Lync) interface. ==History== Microsoft made Lync 2010 generally available on 25 January 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft Lync 2010 Life-cycle Information )〕 The company had released the previous version, Office Communicator 2007 R2, on 19 March 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft Communicator 2007 Life-cycle Info )〕 An even earlier version, "Office Communicator 2007" was released to production on 28 July 2007 and launched on 27 October 2007. The full-featured desktop version of the client requires Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or newer. Microsoft Lync 2010 was released for the Windows Phone, Android, and iOS platforms in Dec 2011.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】Microsoft Lync 2010 released for iOS platform ) 〕 Lync and Lync Server 2013 were released in 2012. On 11 November 2014, Microsoft announced that Lync would be replaced by Skype for Business in 2015, which would combine features of Lync and the consumer Skype software.〔 In April 2015 Microsoft officially launched Skype for Business. On 22 September 2015, Skype for Business 2016 was released alongside Office 2016. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skype for Business」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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