I am running Office Home and Business 2013 on 64-bit Windows 7 SP1. A post on a thread in the Microsoft Community forum for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) informs me that some form of Lync comes with Office 2013. But I am trying to understand what form of Lync I have. Can someone please explain? The following elaborates on this request.
Facts:
- I have not explicitly installed any form of Lync.
- I can find no reference to Lync in the list of currently installed programs in Programs and Features.
- I can find no reference to Lync in the Start Menu or the Control Panel.
- The only references to Lync are in IE11. IE11 Manage Add-ons lists Lync Click to Call (64-bit with status “Enabled”) and Lync Browser Helper (64-bit with status “Incompatible” - this apparently is a known problem caused by Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM) being enabled for IE11). And the IE11 Tools menu lists Lync Click to Call. And those are the only references I can find.
Specific questions:
- I can find plenty of documentation on the Internet about the function of Lync. But what precisely can I do and cannot do with the form of Lync that is on my system?
- When I am using IE11, the currently loaded add-ons always include Lync Click to Call and Lync Browser Helper no matter what Web page I am looking at. Why? What does IE11 expect to use these add-ons for?