I think this was a dumb choice. :( Boo Microsoft. Seeing the color indication of your status was highly useful... this is dumb. The user has to move the mouse and hover instead of just shifting his/her eyes for a millisecond? Boo. At least add the color square on top of it like the Taskbar icon. :(
irritated
10 Jul 2013 7:08 PM
10 Jul 2013 7:37 PM
There was a lot of negative feedback to this change, and the Product Group heard it (loud and clear) and will be reverting things back. Unfortunately, I don't have an ETA yet.
Matt Schultz
10 Jul 2013 8:49 PM
Thanks for responding to the customer feedback on the status icon issue. Looking forward to the future update that will revert this change.
We've also noticed that the icon for the new Meetings pane in the main Lync window does not appear correctly after installing the July 2013 Security Update. Is this a known issue?
Billy Gates
11 Jul 2013 2:54 AM
Maybe keep the logo, but have it change colors on your status... And maybe next time run these changes through some end users before releasing it...
Chandrakant Wadkar
11 Jul 2013 7:54 AM
"This change was made to align Lync 2013 with the overall Office 2013 design standard for the System Tray icons" ..... I wonder what these stupid standards are... Why do MS screws something that is working brilliant so far... Anyway.. I m happy that its being reverted.
Max S.
11 Jul 2013 5:35 PM
Ever since Metro UI and putting menu labels in ALL CAPS, seems like Microsoft's design guidelines are a bit of a hot mess.
Patrick D
12 Jul 2013 3:51 PM
Thank goodness! I was screaming this morning when I updated and found the status changes were no longer viewable on the icon. Hopefully update will come out soon, but not holding my breath.
12 Jul 2013 6:36 PM
Formatting messages on the fly no longer seems to work as well: CTRL B U I no longer do bold, underline, italics.
A bunch of backwards updates it seems.
Jason
12 Jul 2013 8:34 PM
It also looks like you can't make the main window smaller. It takes up more realestate. This CU Update imo brings more issues than it actually fixes.
Clark
13 Jul 2013 2:59 AM
Can we uninstall this updates manually? How?
Xuggs
15 Jul 2013 9:19 AM
I even ended up uninstalling Lync thinking my installation went busted. Feel like a dumb-ass. Thanks MS!
JoeDirte
15 Jul 2013 8:50 PM
I'm glad I chimed in about this here:
Ogre
16 Jul 2013 7:24 AM
Don't change it back. This icon looks WAY better.
SteveC
19 Jul 2013 10:50 PM
I think this was a bad change and welcome that change back to show a user's presence.
Here is a thought, would be possible, to give the user a choice? Those 2 or 3 who want the standard logo can keep it but the rest of us who liked having the presence status displayed can have it our way. Could this just be added as a check box under Tools>Options>General ?