So how does it help consolidate the one stop, the one point in which I'm driving my potential customers?Įric: Sure. So you say I can steer them in one direction but I'll still have the website, right? I'll still have my, you know, social media handles and all that sort of thing. As a small business owner, okay, I can get a Skype phone number. As a result you'll now have one place to go from a communications perspective to really be able to drive what your organization needs to communicate and collaborate all through the Microsoft cloud. Tomorrow, from a business perspective, you'll be able to get a Skype for Business phone number. So what does that mean? You know, in today's day and age, you can go onto Skype and you can get a Skype phone number. So where before you could do maybe a little bit of IM, maybe a little bit of chat and you know, maybe internal PC to PC calling through the cloud, they're starting to roll out the capability to do full PSTN connectivity from Skype for Business online. So what they're doing and what their vision is to move all that workload into the cloud. Now, that sounds great but in practicality it becomes a challenge. Anybody can talk to anybody else anytime anywhere from virtually any device. So Microsoft laid out this vision of universal communications. In addition, you have those 300 million people that are on Skype today. So now everybody that was using Lync is now seeing the new interface or has the opportunity to see the new interface. So, you know, they're starting with back in April, you know, the Skype for Business client went GA.

So what is the goal here, Eric?Įric: You know, I think it's a little bit of both? I think what's going to happen is, you know, they're going to deliver great business value and as a result they may well take over the world, right? And kind of let me explain that. Scott: Skype for Business: is it a great business value or is it Microsoft's play at world domination? Here to talk about it is Eric Bauer with IR.

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