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We are planning for IM & Video Conference solution for our company.
The number of users will be about 40, among three sites (One in HK and two in China).
The main function to us is Instant Message, Audio chat or conference, Video chat or conference.
If we use Skype as our solution, how should be plan to purchase?
Is that we only need pay for Skype Manager and then we can enjoy Group Video Chat for everyone?
Best Regards,
Ivan

Skype manager itself is free. The Group Video chat is not free.
Skype is really quite good, but do not depend on it as your primary method of business communication. I suggest you look at google business apps it may meet your requirement for a low cost. Look at their "hangouts" product - it allows up to 8 or so people to group conference. It is a lot lot better with collaborative document sharing.

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I'm seeing other users words instead of the emoticons in text messaging from my mac laptop. Instead of the emoticon I see the words in parens: rainbow, man, woman for example. Is skype ever gonna sync up the versions so everyone sees the same thing on its product?

Hi Rudolf and welcome to the Skype Community,
Di you know you can actually add Skype contacts on Skype for Business and vice versa? Learn more about adding SfB contacts in Skype here: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12315/can-i-contact-lync-users-from-skype
So basically you can just decide for one client and continue using that. Keep in mind though that currently you can't do Skype screen sharing across these two account types. If you are using the advanced screen share functionality of Skype for Business I would recommend going for that.
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Hi, Zhuge_Laing, and welcome to the Community, To receive the information you require more quickly, please click on the "Looking for Skype For Business" link above the messages list here, and follow the links through to the Office 365 Support Team. Alternately, this link will take you to the same place: https://support.skype.com/faq/FA34551 Regards,Elaine

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