has developed attainable a near-final Release Candidate (RC) edition of its Workplace Communications Server (OCS) product,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Plus, that's staying renamed Lync Server. posted the Lync Server 2010 RC bits for obtain on September 8 (however the hyperlink didn’t show up in the Download Center until September 13). to the release notes, the Lync Server 2010 RC includes both the Enterprise and Standard editions of the server, plus the Lync 2010 client. I blogged last week about Microsoft using the Lync branding for its Communicator client,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, but company officials refused to discuss the new name. On September 13,
Buy Windows 7, Microsoft officially acknowledged the new Lync brand name. has been testing Lync software since earlier this year with selected testers. Company officials have said the on-premises software edition will be released before the end of this year, however the related cloud service — which I’d guess will be called Lync Online — won’t be attainable until 2011. Server 2010, like its OCS 2007 predecessor, is an all-in-one instant-messaging, conferencing and presence server. Microsoft is billing the 2010 release as the first that will provide enterprise-voice capabilities (even though at least one Microsoft partner I know already is offering hosted enterprise-voice capabilities based on the 2007 bits). Lync Server 2010 will be a 64-bit-only item,
Windows 7 Activation Key, and will include a new PowerShell-based foundation that will enable consistent administration across Lync,
Office Pro 2010 Key, Exchange, Active Directory and other Microsoft server products, officials have said.