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Re:Google unifies all of its messaging and communication app... by cmarschner on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:16PM (#23108988)
Couldn't agree more. I had worked for Microsoft before where a) there were hardly any special screens for VCs in meeting rooms - mostly you'd connect your laptop and start Skype (for business), or later Teams, b) the typical 5 minutes at the start of the meeting went with "can you hear me?" - "hello?" before things got settled. What a waste.

With Google meet, finally somebody did the _one job_ they needed to solve (low-latency, mostly-working VC over IP) and they solved the user interface + calendar integration. I love it.

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Re:Google unifies all of its messaging and communication app... by darrmit on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:59PM (#23110609)
It’s funny.. I was at Microsoft recently for some meetings and their rooms were Teams integrated. On at least one occasion we had to revert to Hangouts Meet+HDMI in the room to get external people to join simply because Teams wouldn’t work. The best thing about Meet is the simplicity.
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