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Published onSeptember 19, 2015

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The Skype Team hasannouncedthe availability of the Object RTC API preview on Microsoft Edge for the latestWindows 10 insiderbuild. According to the Skype team, later this year when Object RTC is fully enabled in Edge, users will be able to make audio and video calls within the browserwithoutthe use of plugins. The Skype and Edge teams are also working on bringing this functionality to Skype for Business.ObjectRTC (ORTC), as well as its sister API, Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), are in-development web standard APIs that enable real time streaming of data between web browsers. This facilitates web apps such as voice calling, video conferencing, and general P2P data sharing directly within the browsers. These APIs are the last puzzle pieces needed to make apps like Skype for Web and Skype for Outlook.com fully functional within the browser.With Adobe’s Flash browser plugin on its way out of mainstream browsing, the healthy development of ORTC and WebRTC brings us one step closer to the web ideal: a world wide web where content is powered without the use of proprietary and potentially unsecure plugins, entirely by open standard browser technologies. Although, interestingly enough, what constitutes a viable “open standard” is still a hotly contested arena.Object RTC was developed by Microsoftin responseto what the company saw as a flawed WebRTC standard. The WebRTC standard is backed most noticeably by Google and Mozilla, the developers of Edge/IE competitors Chrome and Firefox respectively. It should be mentioned that Google is also an active participant in ORTC development as well.If web standards are supposed to eliminate unnecessary in-fighting and strengthen interoperability between browsers, doesn’t having two competing real-time data APIs go against this ideal? Not necessarily in this case, as the ORTC developers have promised that ORTC will be compatible with WebRTC. Currently, Edge will be the only browser support ORTC, whereas Chrome, Firefox, and Opera will support WebRTC. It should be noted that Apple is conspicuously absent from officially supporting either API.For those interested in the more technical explanation of what the ORTC API encompasses, the vauntedEdge Teamdiscusses ithere.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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