Microsoft Will Offer Skype Features In Internet Explorer

Microsoft Will Offer Skype Features In Internet Explorer

Internet is full of Trolls about Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Days pass on, but the Image of IE to the public remains the same. So now Microsoft have announced that their popular calling and chatting service Skype will be implemented on their Windows Browser Inter Explorer.

Shijun Sun, senior program manager for Internet Explorer said in a blog post that the Redmond Giant has started working on the ORTC (Object Real Time Communications) API for WebRTC as part of an ongoing partnership with standards bodies W3C and IETF.

Microsoft and over 80 other participants are actively collaborating with the W3C and IETF to contribute and improve standards like the ORTC API for WebRTC. The W3C ORTC Community Group has issued a “Call for Implementations,” which means the ORTC specification has reached significant stability.

WebRTC is an open project which allows Internet users to communicate via voice and video easily by using a WebRTC-compatible browser. Developers can include real-time data sharing and video/audio calls which includes video conference calls. As of now, this feature will only be available in Internet Explorer and no information seems to given out about the other browsers being able to adapt it.

The supported version for this is IE 11 and over.    

Rather than the IE, Skype will be available as a stand alone plugin for its competitors, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Sun said,

working closely with the web community to improve other existing standards for richer video interoperability, for example, features to adapt to changing bandwidth conditions and more.

Skype has been implemented already into the Outlook.com but the usage of it is only as a instant messaging service which is not full usage of its capability as a voice application.

The root cause behind this is to simplify the usage of Skype without installing any Plug in and the software itself. According to Sun, this will help Skype's audience to boost their presence as well as its revenues. 

All of Skype's biggest competitors have already implemented browser calling features and now Microsoft realize that they have to do something about it and have to do the same like others.

Both Google and Mozilla are ahead of Microsoft regarding adding WebRTC features to their respective browsers and in terms of building plugin-free calling services that rely on the technology.