The mobile client is dependent on an organization having Lync 2010 Server installed. The mobile client must be provisioned by the Lync server administrator first, and that will enable users to download and begin using the various Lync 2010 mobile apps, a Microsoft unified communications team blog explained.
Microsoft now is pushing Windows Embedded as the cornerstone of “intelligent systems” — a variation on the “Internet of Things” concept that envisions connectivity and computing extended beyond computers and phones to all sorts of objects.
This explains why the embedded team was moved last year from the Interactive Entertainment group and is now part of Microsoft’s Server and Tools business. It’s still selling embedded operating systems to computer and device makers, but the big money is in stacks of software, servers and services in such industries as retail, health care, manufacturing and automotive.
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