Microsoft has launched the latest trial version of Lync Server 2010 as it’s part of commitment in interoperability.
Microsoft® Lync™ connects users in new ways, regardless of their physical location. The latest release of the Unified Communications platform delivers a fresh, intuitive user experience that is directly accessible from Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint®. Lync brings together the different ways people communicate in a single interface, is deployed as a unified platform, and is administered through a single management infrastructure. The unified nature of the system helps reduce costs and facilitates rapid user adoption. And, because Lync is broadly interoperable, it fits into existing IT infrastructure for easier deployment and migration.
Currently lync server 2010 will be available in english language only in a 64bit version and you will require Microsoft Lync 2010 to evaluate lync server 2010 which will be a 180 days trial pack.
WHAT’S NEW IN LYNC SERVER 2010:
For more info, check out http://lync.microsoft.com/ and http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/evalcenter/ff808407.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_23_1_7