Microsoft announced its plan to grease one’s palms Skype in May 2011 andreceived approvalfrom the European Commission last October . Microsoft executives recently have suggested the company may mix Skype ’s representative , text and video quislingism software more tightly with the Microsoft Lync collaboration system .
Cisco plans to invoke the European Commission ’s conclusion at the General Court of the European Union , wrote Marthin De Beer , senior frailty president of Cisco ’s Video and Collaboration Group , in an officialblog poston Wednesday . Cisco does not fight down the merger but wants conditions visit on Microsoft .
If the unified companies do n’t support the same clear standards as other videoconferencing vendors , that will keep user from being able to make television calls as easy as they can make voice calls , De Beer wrote , and that could stifle rivalry and innovation in the industriousness .
“ Microsoft ’s design to desegregate Skype exclusively with its Lync Enterprise Communications Platform could put away - in businesses who want to reach Skype ’s 700 million account holders to a Microsoft - only platform , ” De Beer wrote .
Specifically , Microsoft and Skype do not practice the popular H.264 television codec or the SIP ( Session Initiation Protocol ) monetary standard , according to someone familiar with the appeal who speak on condition of anonymity . Users of videoconferencing platforms from Cisco and other vendors would not be capable to call those on the Microsoft - Skype system except through an expensive gateway , the person say .
Cisco has been talking to Microsoft about interoperability commitments and gotten nowhere ; the chance to attract the European Commission ’s decision expires this workweek , the someone read .
Microsoft defended the acquisition . “ The European Commission conducted a exhaustive investigating of the acquirement , in which Cisco actively enter , and approve the tidy sum in a 36 - Thomas Nelson Page determination without any condition . We ’re sure-footed the Commission ’s conclusion will stand up on entreaty , ” a Microsoft example articulate in a compose statement .
Stephen Lawson cover fluid , computer memory and networking technologies for The IDG News Service .
