"Microsoft advocates use of a standard called Simple Control Protocol (SCP), a communication method that lets different devices find each other and control each other. [...] "We're trying to make that the standard in the market," though there are competitors such as the years old but very basic X10, the more recent Cebus and Sun Microsystems' Jini. While Jini attracted early partners such as Whirlpool, Sun has been recasting Jini as better for governing software processes on servers than gadgets. Microsoft believes SCP will prevail because it's an extension of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology it ships in Window Me and XP."
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