Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
by stephenhuey on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:09AM
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When I started enjoying a blazing fast connection at Rice University in 1998, I frequently enjoyed MS Netmeeting video calls with friends who were scattered across the country. Within a few years it was a distant memory, and it surprises me how it was well over a dozen years before reliably easy video calls became commonplace.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
by asciimov on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:55AM
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It's been a long time since I heard mention of NetMeeting.
I remember using NetMeeting in late 97 or early 98 on a 33.6 kbps modem. One of the most memorable parts was the area were you could find other random people to chat with on audio. I had many enjoyable conversations with various people on there, something that I don't think would work well today with the increased number of horrible netizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_NetMeeting
A very good VOIP / videoconferencing / white-boarding / application sharing client present on almost all Windows computers, open standards interoperable, with an official ActiveX Control and public API. You could easily embed it into your HTML site (IE compatible only), or drag and drop it into your Visual Basic / Delphi / Microsoft Office script application and thus effortlessly embed and control the functionality into your own website/application.
https://youtu.be/B8wH5pRcWts
https://news.microsoft.com/1996/09/30/microsoft-ships-netmee...