Touch/click to show the new client UI. Lync 2013 provides a single, unified client for real-time communications, including voice and video calls, Lync Meetings, Touch-friendly selection buttons when you move the pointer presence, instant messaging, and persistent chat. Having a single over/touch: UC client application instead of multiple applications simplifies Contacts, other users deployment, adoption, and support. Chat Rooms Conversations The Lync 2013 client UI was redesigned to be intuitive and touch Phone friendly, building upon Lync 2010 – with familiar pictures, presence, and cascading groups of contacts – though aligned to the new Microsoft Office look and feel with minimal chrome. New features include: Improved touch, use of common Office design objects Pictures – higher definition via the Microsoft Exchange contact store Enhanced contact cards – consistent throughout Office Presence Show various presence states of contacts; including “–mobile” Employees can be present with presence, even when tags, inactivity times, Do Not Disturb, Presenter, etc. telecommuting. Presence shows your colleagues’ availability and Status drop-down list. willingness to communicate, using information based on the Location drop-down list. user’s manual presence input, device activity, integrated calendar, mobile status, and call or Lync Meeting status. You might need to be connected to a projector, or be using a live environment and be connected from the outside, to see Lync users can optionally share location data, set automatically by these new states. company network elements mapped to a physical address or manually entered, in order to keep colleagues and federated
Lync 2013 provides a single, unified client for real-time communications, including voice and video calls, Lync Meetings, presence, instant messaging, and persistent chat. Having a single UC client application instead of multiple applications simplifies deployment, adoption, and support. The Lync 2013 client UI was redesigned to be intuitive and touch friendly, building upon Lync 2010 – with familiar pictures, presence, and cascading groups of contacts – though aligned to the new Microsoft Office look and feel with minimal chrome. New features include: Improved touch, use of common Office design objects Pictures – higher definition via the Microsoft Exchange contact store Enhanced contact cards – consistent throughout Office Touch/click to show the new client UI. Touch-friendly selection buttons when you move the pointer over/touch: Contacts, other users Chat Rooms Conversations Phone Presence Employees can be present with presence, even when telecommuting. Presence shows your colleagues’ availability and willingness to communicate, using information based on the user’s manual presence input, device activity, integrated calendar, mobile status, and call or Lync Meeting status. Lync users can optionally share location data, set automatically by company network elements mapped to a physical address or manually entered, in order to keep colleagues and federated Show various presence states of contacts; including “–mobile” tags, inactivity times, Do Not Disturb, Presenter, etc. Status drop-down list. Location drop-down list. You might need to be connected to a projector, or be using a live environment and be connected from the outside, to see these new states.