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Re:Cisco Webex launches real-time translation by haswell on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:27AM (#26425779)
My employer switched to Zoom long before COVID. We formerly used Webex. From a quality-of-life perspective, the contrast is stark. Things I used to struggle with in Webex:

- Multiple versions of the Webex client

- UI so slow I couldn't start/stop sharing quickly in many meetings

- Extremely high CPU/RAM consumption (Zoom suffers from this, too, but generally doesn't completely lock up my computer)

- Email client plugins that only occasionally work

I'm a remote product manager (even before COVID), and spend most of my days on virtual meetings. The reduction of daily/hourly friction by moving to Zoom cannot be overstated (in my case, anyway).

I'm unhappy with Zoom for philosophical reasons, but would choose Zoom over Webex 10 times out of 10 from a UX/quality of life perspective.

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Re:Cisco Webex launches real-time translation by newman314 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:08PM (#26426324)
The one thing that I find superior in WebEx over Zoom is how the calendar events are presented. In Zoom, it often is unclear and I have to hunt for the event that I want to join, whereas in WebEx, it was always right where I needed it to be.
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