I’m happy to write about the latest product announcement by Microsoft. Microsoft Lync successor of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 was announced by Microsoft yesterday(13-09-2010).this product is now in the RC (Release Candidate) stage and the product is supposed to be out in the market soon(RTM stage). Please find below few links which you can read to gather some more information relating to the next release of Microsoft Lync
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/sep10/LyncPR.mspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2010/09/13/introducing-microsoft-lync-the-next-ocs.aspx