• notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago
        • Exchange 2000 Conferencing
        • Windows Messenger 5.0 (Live Communications Server 2003)
        • Windows Messenger 5.1 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Live Communications Server 2005)
        • Office Communicator 2007
        • Office Communicator 2007 R2
        • Lync 2010
        • Lync 2013
        • Skype for Businesses 2015
        • Skype for Businesses 2016
        • Skype for Businesses 2019
        • Skype for Business for Microsoft 365

        Thanks Wikipedia, no way I could have remembered them all. Although I feel like Lync 2010 might be Lync for Business 2010?

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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          8 months ago

          If you think that’s bad, try following the current name of an enterprise Office subscription you bought fifteen years ago. I think Microsoft intentionally renames those every two years just to make sure every permutation of [Office, 365, Professional, Microsoft, Business] is used at least once to describe the same product.

          I don’t think Lync was ever sold as “for business”, the “for business” part came when Microsoft renamed it to “Skype for business”.