Dan York, best practices chair of the VoIP Security Alliance and an admitted Skype advocate, is not impressed with the VoIP giant's product strategy, according to a recent blog post he wrote regarding Skype's 4.1 for Windows announcement last week. He said the inability for his Mac Skype client to talk to users on another operating system, such as Windows or Linux, makes it hard to get enthused about new updates to Skype's software.
"Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge Skype fan," York wrote. "It's open for me all the time and I have something like 40+ group chats (IM) open at any time for various projects and teams. But Skype's continued belief in a fragmented, fractured, siloed platform-specific product strategy is still a path of monumental stupidity, in my opinion."
York expressed his desire for the next full release of Skype to enable interoperability amongst operating systems and to also coordinate the release across the multiple OSs on which Skype operates. He's been talking about the lack of interoperability for some time, and you can take a look at an earlier article on York's position here.
For more:
- see the full article here on Dan's Disruptive Telephony blog
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