The same ease of connecting with colleagues and clients on your laptop will be available on-the-go. The rumors are flying the much anticipated release of Lync 2010 for smartphones and tablets is rumored to arrive before the end of the year. In just 24 hours, 60 percent of their workforce adopted Lync. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia says Lync was the fastest product roll-out in company history.Microsoft Lync 2010 SDK is designed for software developers who intend to build custom Microsoft Lync 2010 applications or embed collaboration functionality in line-of-business (LOB) applications that interoperate with other custom Lync SDK clients or Lync 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Swisscom decommissioned 94 PBXs after deploying Lync to its 15,000 employees, saving $17 million. Documentation updated Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

LA Fitness reports saving more than $650,000 a year.

Kirk Gregersen highlights much of this triumph in his blog post:

Clients are already reporting great success.

Lync has grown 25 percent at Microsoft, and Derek Burney, corporate vice president for Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Office Data, credits much of Lync’s success to its relationship with Microsoft Office tools and Lync’s partner community.

Forrester research found the ROI on Lync is more than 300 percent, while companies could see a breakeven point as early as 7-8 months after deployment.

About 3 million enterprise users use Lync 2010 for their telephony needs versus a traditional PBX.

Two thousand and eleven has been a successful year for Lync, so let’s take a look at some of the milestones Lync has accomplished in just 12 months.

The beginning of December marks Microsoft Lync 2010’s first anniversary.

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