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Using two large touch-screen displays, Burney showed single-touch joining for a meeting, and demonstrated how one screen could display Lync video and the other be an electronic virtual whiteboard, whose display can be saved as a file so that meeting notes are recorded-without people having to get out their phones and take pictures of the old-fashioned whiteboard.

The other big element of the demo was Microsoft's move to push Lync into the conference room.

'As soon as the standard is ratified, we'll be delighted to move over to it,' Burney said. Though the Lync Web app today uses a plugin for the browser, Burney promised that Microsoft would support WebRTC, which he called a 'super exciting initiative.' He discussed the Lync Web app for browsers, which lets any user join a meeting from a PC or Mac browser, which led Burney to the topic that's been hottest at this show, WebRTC. He stressed that the client retains its 'Lync-ness' while also being adapted for the design of each mobile OS, so that the user feels comfortable with the interface.

#LYNC WEB APP PLUG IN ANDROID#

Burney then moved on to showing Lync on a range of mobile clients-starting with Windows phone, of course, but moving on to Android and iPhones. Burney, who holds the title of Corporate VP, Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Office Data, devoted the entirety of his talk to showing off some of the highlights of the latest Lync release-prefacing his demos with the information that it was all running on Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365, a integration that is scheduled to go live across the service sometime in the next 18 months.Д«urney started out by demonstrating the ease with which a new user can be added to an Office 365 account, with whatever Office application licenses the enterprise desires-the first time this function had been demo-ed publicly, he said. It was Enterprise Connect 2013 meets Microsoft Lync 2013 when Derek Burney took the keynote stage on Wednesday.

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