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> "like Lync and Skype" Lync has been renamed to Skype For Business, and is very similar in terms of user experience to the standard Skype app. > "I still can
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
> "like Lync and Skype"
Lync has been renamed to Skype For Business, and is very similar in terms of user experience to the standard Skype app.
> "I still cannot figure out where our documents are stored... is it on the windows share? OneDrive? SharePoint? My personal Dropbox??"
You can hardly blame Microsoft for the slack IT policies at your workplace.
- douche 10y agoSkype for Business and Skype are two completely different, just barely compatible things. They run completely different networking protocols, and the S4B client is still, barring some cosmetic skinning, the same as the Lync client from nearly four years ago. The About page in the S4B client may still be calling itself the Microsoft Lync Client - it was still doing so in the 2016 version of the client this spring... What a colossal marketing cockup
- ZenoArrow 10y agoVery few people care about networking protocols, and SFB is explicitly a business communication tool, meaning that most of your contact will be with people who also have SFB. As for the About page of SFB, I can't comment on what it was before, but I've just checked, it now says Skype For Business 2016.
- douche 10y agoI only know the details because I write software on top of some of the Lync/S4B APIs, and have to deal with customers that are completely confused why one Skype client they have for making calls works with our software, and their other Skype client with a nearly identical icon that they also use for making calls doesn't...
- ZenoArrow 10y agoWhich app do these users have? If they have SFB, does this not work? https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Let-users-add-external-contacts-from-Skype-08666236-1894-42ae-8846-e49232bbc460?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Let-users-add-exter...
- tomc1985 10y agoUh, the Mac client still says Lync, and it looks way different than Skype. "Don't blame Microsoft for slack IT policies" What? Like hell I'm not blaming them. It's not my fault they offer a bunch of shitty, complicated, barely-working, overlapping, should-be-simple services that nontechnicals can barely wrap their mind around. It's not my fault my employer hired me to work on Linux code and then has a sudden Windows come-to-Jesus moment. (I'm sure theres some stupid sales rep to thank for that...) It's not my fault that Microsoft can't write decent AJAX! If they would simply follow standards we wouldn't have this problem. But then of course Micro$oft wouldn't make as much ca$h, and we certainly cant have that now can we....
- ZenoArrow 10y ago> "Like hell I'm not blaming them." So Microsoft tell the employees at your company which places to store their documents do they? Why does your company not standardise on how documents are stored? >"It's not my fault that Microsoft can't write decent AJAX" Examples?
- larrywright 10y agoThen you haven't upgraded: https://products.office.com/en-us/skype-for-business/download-app?tab=tabs-3#Mac https://products.office.com/en-us/skype-for-business/downloa...
- KirinDave 10y agoNot unusual. Many orgs are still lagging on Win10 as well. They have contracts with things like cough anti-virus providers of ill repute cough and they cannot upgrade because these tools don't work.
- tomc1985 10y agoWe're rather fond of Windows 7, because it pretty much just works. (And nobody wants to deal with upgrading) A few of the handful of Win10 laptops have been headaches. "Lagging" is an interesting choice of words...