Hmm, interesting, never heard of it. My company is deep into WebEx and Skype for Business though, so not surprising.
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Where did Zoom (video conferencing software) come from?
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Don't take this the wrong way, but if you're using WebEx and Skype for Business, you're pretty out of date.
It's Slack/Teams/Zoom these days. I mean Skype for Business is dead as of next year.
Skype for Business – Death Exaggerated, but on Life Support
Despite Microsoft's plan to pull the plug on Skype, many enterprises and consumers are still using it.www.nojitter.com
Not to sound like a defensive asshole, but we use those too (at least locally), and I know Skype is going being sunset for Teams.
My question was really about how ubiquitous Zoom is given that usually takes corporations eons to adopt new technologies (It took over two years to get a corporate Slack up and running), but Zoom appeared almost overnight.
Last week was literally the first time I ever heard of it after I kept hearing about how other people were doing video calls with it.
Just use Slack. Discord is basically a Slack rip off that's focused on consumers.
You have to pay extra for it
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Thanks, now I know that my providers pushing zoom for a remote appt are not using the HIPAA compliant version.You have to pay extra for it
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Had a virtual meeting today and when I signed I noticed it said video was being recorded. WTF is with that.
My company has been using them since last year, after moving from Go to Meeting. It's...fine, does the job, and they're local too (I tried to get a job there :( )
Unlike Skype it actually lets you have a shitton of videos on the screen at once. I was immediately sold.
We've been using it at my company for a couple years now. Makes having video meetings super easy since all the conference rooms in the offices around the country are all setup for it.
Whomever set up the meeting chose to record it
Up until last year my company was using gotomeeting for meetings and skype for team chats, and then one day everyone switched to zoom, it was installed on every pc, and every conference room had a zoom room tablet. It is a lot easier to use so I don't mind but it was really sudden.
It's because it's being offered for free now. But all of the web conferencing apps are.
Been using it for nearly a year, mostly because it easily integrates with Calendly and Google Calendar for super simple scheduling on my website.
If you're in a company with older tech I can understand why you've never heard of it.
If you're in a company with older tech I can understand why you've never heard of it.
Its been around for a while. Its fantastic. My company just dropped it to go with a unified product and we all miss it so much.
I'm a one man internal IT shop for a small company (about 100 US employees) and recently rolled out Teams as our teleconference solution mostly due to the fact it's $0 with our Office 365 subscriptions. Is there any major benefit to Zoom over this? Teams teleconferencing has been rock solid compared to the dumpster fire that was Skype for Business, but when it comes to end users sometimes the less resistance the better.
Yeah my last job we dropped WebEx for zoom a couple of years ago. For a bunch of idiots in retail it works way better to set up easy conference calls.
Is it really? I find webex has been really good and easy when they gave users personal rooms. One address for all meetings.
Having used Webex, zoom and Hangouts, I will definitely have to go with Hangouts for simplicity.
I'm part of a non-profit Design Sprint group and our lead got us using Zoom over a year ago. I'd never heard of it until then.
Yeah working in the tech industry definitely helps. My company has been using Zoom for well over a year (and we were trialing it a while before that too). General consensus is Webex is the older/outdated one of the two. Almost all video meetings I have with other tech companies are on Zoom or Hangouts (a couple have used Blue Jeans, but it's ehhh)
Everyone's using the backgrounds at my company (tech). Since we're all at home, it helps people not see the back of your home or any children and dogs crawling around.
I'm personally looking into Teams for my small MSP group than rely on privacy invading Zoom.
Fuck that
Fuck that
We've been using it for about a year at my place. Works really well, integrates well with our systems - slack, gsuite etc - and tbh I've found the video quality loads better than Skype, and given we use slack no point in teams.
It works particularity well for multi site calls, and works well with our Logitech meeting room kit. I like it.
It works particularity well for multi site calls, and works well with our Logitech meeting room kit. I like it.
Zoom is amazing for a CIO or CTO. It's a no brainer, they've made enterprise video conferencing and room management extremely easy as compared to solutions from the past.My company has been using them for years and years and I've enjoyed the ease of use of their software far more than WebEx, GoToMeeting, BlueJeans, and Google Meetings, all of which I've also used.
For example, when I was at the office, to start a meeting I would just walk into a conference room and hit start on the iPad. Everything is connected, it knows my meeting is scheduled in that room, I don't have to enter in any conference code or dial into a phone line. Might seem insignificant, but the alternative of dialing in and that entire process might take you time using another tool to look up your meeting, find the code, enter it in, dial in perhaps, etc. Those minutes saved really add up, and reduce the amount of mental strain one has when moving from meeting to meeting in a busy day.
They are also a client of mine, and I've been to their HQ a few times. The people there are very intelligent and their product is rock solid. I find it amusing that whenever an established enterprise B2B business comes into the limelight in a situation like this, every armchair privacy/security analyst comes out the woodwork to raise 'red flags' in Twitter takes.
For example, when I was at the office, to start a meeting I would just walk into a conference room and hit start on the iPad. Everything is connected, it knows my meeting is scheduled in that room, I don't have to enter in any conference code or dial into a phone line. Might seem insignificant, but the alternative of dialing in and that entire process might take you time using another tool to look up your meeting, find the code, enter it in, dial in perhaps, etc. Those minutes saved really add up, and reduce the amount of mental strain one has when moving from meeting to meeting in a busy day.
They are also a client of mine, and I've been to their HQ a few times. The people there are very intelligent and their product is rock solid. I find it amusing that whenever an established enterprise B2B business comes into the limelight in a situation like this, every armchair privacy/security analyst comes out the woodwork to raise 'red flags' in Twitter takes.
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We've been using gotomeeting for work. I'm also taking a part time course and it uses Zoom, first time I've used it. The privacy stuff is concerning.
Yeah op. I knew of it but since c19 everyone I'd talking about it. Idk. We use google hangouts and is fine not sure why people use zoom
They undercut everyone and responded to actual feature requests. One wish for me is a non-VMR model so I can do p2p without consuming a room.