Cisco will appeal the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's US$8.5 billion Skype acquisition, saying the agency should demand that the companies support



From PC World:

Microsoft announced its plan to buy Skype in May 2011 and received approval from the European Commission last October. Microsoft executives recently have suggested the company may integrate Skype's voice, text and video collaboration software more tightly with the Microsoft Lync collaboration system.

Cisco plans to appeal the European Commission's decision at the General Court of the European Union, wrote Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco's Video and Collaboration Group, in an official blog post on Wednesday. Cisco does not oppose the merger but wants conditions imposed on Microsoft.

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