Microsoft's mission to connect its consumer and business communications services is running later than many expected, according to the latest Lync roadmap.



From All About Microsoft:

Microsoft provided an updated roadmap for its Lync unified-communications platform on February 19, the opening day of the company's first Lync Conference in San Diego.
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The biggest piece of new news is that Lync-Skype connectivity/federation is coming later than many expected. The first piece of that connectivity --- sharing of presence, instant messaging (IM) and voice across the two services -- will be available to all Lync users as of June 2013. Video connectivity between Skype and Lync isn't coming until some time in the next 18 months, officials confirmed today.

  Microsoft to begin connecting Skype and Lync by June 2013