But with Skype for Business broadcast meetings, introduced in preview mode as Skype Meeting Broadcast, on the horizon, Microsoft is about to (re)introduce a webcasting service, and one that promises to scale beyond anything it previously offered. This has opened opportunities for partners, which have stepped in to provide Lync with the massively scalable meeting functionality that it lacked natively. Despite acquisitions, integrations, and enhancements, meeting scalability has been decreasing, rather than increasing. However, there will be a major change in how Skype for Business Server (and Skype for Business Online too, for that matter) supports large-scale conferences, long a problem area for Microsoft. So this is where Microsoft developers focused most of their attention this time around. Microsoft's hosted UC service has long had limitations when it comes to delivering a complete business telephony feature set. But it's not a major revision like the platform has had in the past, and what's new isn't as significant as what's new in Skype for Business Online. That is to say, Skype for Business Server gets a new UI and Call via Work replaces Remote Call Control, plus plenty of other stuff. When Microsoft announced Skype for Business earlier this year, I was struck by how radically Lync Online would change and how much Lync Server wouldn't.
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