Microsoft supporting ORTC or WebRTC?

Question

After reading multiple articles, I am left confused whether Microsoft will follow WebRTC standard or
will follow its cu-rtc successor O-RTC ?

Also Opera states its support for WebRTC for versions 18+,
but i do not see support for getUsermedia->chooseMediaDesktop for screen sharing.

Similarly, does the Microsoft's ORTC standard support screen sharing? Or we wait until it supports WebRTC?

I tried CU-RTC prototype and ORTC prototypes on IE, and both are regarding to peer to peer communication.

I need to create Opera/IE plugins to allow screen sharing on web page. No other way seems to be there other than the WebRTC standard getUserMedia -> chooseDesktopMedia But the same is not supported in Opera, IE and Safari(Mac)

Answer 1

As of Sept 18 Microsoft Edge (Spartan) is now supporting ORTC. Links and such are below.

BLOGS - http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/09/18/ortc-api-is-now-available-in-microsoft-edge/

• https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/18/enabling-seamless-communication-experiences-for-the-web-with-skype-skype-for-business-and-microsoft-edge/

• http://blogs.skype.com/2015/09/18/skype-for-web-and-skype-for-outlook-com-update/

DEMOS on Edge Test Drive - http://dev.modern.ie/testdrive/demos/ortcdemo/ for Edge-to-Edge video calls

• http://dev.modern.ie/testdrive/demos/twilioortc/ for Edge-to-Phone calls by Twilio

• http://dev.modern.ie/testdrive/demos/simplewebrtc for Edge-to-Chrome/FF audio calls by &yet

Open Source projects for WebRTC-ORTC interop - https://webrtchacks.com/first-steps-ortc/ - blog post and open source project by &yet

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/ortc-adapter - open source project launched by Twilio

Hope this helps. Healy in Tampa