Last October, Microsoft, the world's software giant announced that it has completed the acquisition of Skype, the company is a leading provider of internet phone service. The transaction was the largest acquisition in the history of Microsoft.
When it was decided that Microsoft spends up to U.S. $ 8.5 billion or about Rp73 trillion.
But now, a step that Microsoft's acquisition of Skype got a lawsuit from Cisco, one of the major players in telecommunications network equipment industry.
According to Cisco, a lot of things that should be regulated to ensure that Microsoft is unfairly blocking out Skype video services. For that, they have urged the European Commission to introduce an open standard, similar to standards used in mobile phones.
"Cisco did not object to the merger, but we are confident that the European Commission should establish rules to ensure broader interoperability standards," said Martin De Beer, Video Conferencing Head, Cisco, quoted by the BBC, February 20, 2012.
Open standards
When acquired by Microsoft in May, Skype itself has 650 million customers around the world. It is feared, this acquisition will make Microsoft's own video telecommunications technology that make it difficult for competitors to compete.Cisco itself has a similar video conferencing service Skype which WebEx. And open standards for video telecommunication services enables video calls made between WebEx and Skype, as well as other services such as Google Video.
"Without open standards rule, Microsoft will control the future of video communications," said De Beer. "In fact, make video calls to the video should be as easy as making a call to a phone number," he said.
Currently, De Beer said, we have not been able to make video calls seamlessly from one platform to another platform. "Video calls between subscribers of the platform is still confusing the users and businesses," he said.
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