Finally, users can snap Lync to one side of the screen or the other, a useful feature for an app which already has acres of unused space on a widescreen monitor. There’s also the ability to adjust the volume of Lync calls from within the app itself without adjusting the master volume, and you can accept meetings and calls from the lock screen.
The feature list of the new Windows 8.1 version is relatively minor: users can take control of shared screens, contacts can be searched from within the app, and the login process has been improved. Microsoft A new, rudimentary way to search Lync contacts has been added. Still, the two services overlap so much that there’s a strong case for merely killing one and keeping the other, as we argued earlier this year. Promised an email but nothing arrived yet Soundcard appears to be working.
Skype, which straddles the business and consumer worlds, has far more: about 300 million users or so. skype mic not working windows 8.1 - posted in Internal Hardware: Hello Guys Reported to Microsoft through online chat. Microsoft has pitched Lync at enterprises, with about 5 million users in May. In May, Microsoft linked Lync and Skype, meaning that the two platforms can talk to one another video calls can’t be made from one platform to the other, however.
