Cisco blasts EC over Microsoft Skype openness

Cisco has taken time out from axing unpopular and overpriced teleconferencing systems to complain about Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, challenging the EC with demands for greater priority for open video standards. Although Cisco doesn’t oppose the acquisition, video conferencing chief Marthin De Beer wrote on the company’s official blog, it does believe the European Commission shirked on insisting Microsoft must adopt open standards that won’t prevent rival services from intercommunicating.
“Imagine how difficult it would be if you were limited to calling people who only use the same carrier or if your phone could only call certain brands and not others” De Beer suggests. Cisco’s fear, it... »read more

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