I wonder if Ozzie is coming with, or if he's dumping the company. I always hoped Ozzie would win the power struggle and run Microsoft, but Ballmer carried the day.
Maybe Nadella and Ozzie can work together. We might actually see Microsoft start pushing the boundaries of computing again. Nadella seems like a pretty good collaborator from what I've read.
I worked with people at Microsoft who then joined Talko - I'm confident this is just an acquihire if Ray isn't coming along. It's funny because those people basically left Microsoft only to come back to Microsoft, so it's a great setup for those employees since they'll get probably a nice bonus out of it; but the product itself went absolutely nowhere, I'm not surprised by this move at all.
Our understanding is that "Skype for Business" is the name of the current client. The client still talks to the Lync server, for all intents and purposes.
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The Talko team made awesome contributions to the Erlang AWS library (https://github.com/talko/erlcloud) — huge props for that.
Also, glad we (https://sameroom.io) didn't integrate with them, we almost did.
As far as I know "Skype for Business" is still using Lync's protocols, so your line would still be accurate.
We just released an integration with Lync 2013 (https://sameroom.io/open-a-tube/signin/proxy?type=lync), so we're learning a lot more about this space. Will consider updating the chart :)