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Mobile and web-based google application that lets small to large businesses conduct voice/video calls among colleagues or business partners.
Skype is suitable for private users seeking a chat and video program, and for smaller companies looking to use video conferencing or Internet telephony.
Its reliability and ease to use has made online meetings to be a success. Just a few clicks and you can join and start your meeting making it the best in the market.
It's bad when you lock up by interrupting meetings where you need to go back to finish conversations.
The ability to communicate with team members in the comfort of our own homes. Great for quarantine and keeping everyone up to date.
Occasionally I clicked the wrong tab and lost connection with my audience, but that was just part of the learning curve.
This software was a lifesaver and also a good tool to add to the growing list of virtual communication software.
Bad connecting it freezes alot and drop the call I hate the service call you barely can got a video on there.
I like the ease of use, teachability to my employees, and ease of installation. The price is good for my company.
Sadly, however, the mechanism behind this feature does not work well, and the captions are often wildly inaccurate.
It's very easy to install and intuitive to use, which makes the experience pleasant, you can share the screen and other things that, especially for the time, were great.
Connectivity (FREEZES) Issues. Lack of new features, it's been the same for years.
Screen share feature is amazing and completely free of cost. It is a simple and amazing software.
The one thing It makes me not like the software that much is the lagging and freezing problem.
What I like most about Skype is the UI and the fact that it's user friendly. Messaging for business and sending/accessing files is super easy.
Sometimes new updates create conflict with old users.
The best things about Skype are the video and sound clarity, the good value, and that it's Microsoft. I feel like Skype has been a reliable service and has been an asset for us.
The software can be glitchy, and sometimes calls will drop or audio quality will be poor.
Babu: So myself, Babu, and I'm the leading software development team on a major platform in the company called British Car Auctions. We are based out of UK and Europe. I would rate not five, but just four for Google Meets because we mostly use Teams and Slack for the other purposes. We use Slack and Teams predominantly, but Google Meets is one of the key thing when we jump between the teams. I mean, for example, we are part of engineering team when we want to communicate with the business team or some other team internally communicating. Most of the leadership team, they prefer to use Google Meets, that's what we realized. But predominantly in the engineering team, we are using Teams and Slack. Microsoft Teams and Slack. It's not about any particular reason, but it's just the leadership team, they stick with the Google Meets instead. They don't want to use Microsoft Teams and Slack chat in the group. Whenever they want to communicate within other engineering teams or security teams, they usually schedule a meeting with Google Meets. We work from home, but literally leadership team, can join from anywhere. For security and other purposes, sometimes Microsoft Teams and Slack won't be available in public network with all the restrictions. That's the reason they go for. But we are pretty much okay with whatever we want to present all those things. It's the business leadership team's decision if they want to go for Google Meets. It's not a big deal because I believe it's not a basic setup which is needed for Slack and Teams organization and you need to give specific access through an EAD or support team. It'll be just like if you have a Google ID, it'll be more like accessing the Google Meets and all those things. But the thing is, if you want to use your official email ID, you need to create an email ID for your personal account, you can use it, but it's just advisable to use a company account. You need to map it. For example, my email ID would be a company email ID, then I need to map it to the Gmail one so that I can use the Google Meet. That's the one extra bit of process if you don't want to use the personal Gmail ID. I would say in rating purposes, I would not go for 10, but somewhere around eight. It's just they can use it like a backup or if they have any restricted content or want to use. Say they have some issues with Google Meet because they can't directly join into that Google Meet if they want to share any. Because it's about data governance, how data will be shared in this public portal. Because if you have Microsoft Teams and Slack, it'll be an enterprise account dedicated to your organization. But for Google Meet, I would say it'll be more of a general discussions or a business meeting. All those things. It'll be very handy instead of Microsoft Teams. So it'll be more of business discussions and general thoughts or any white board meetings. We can organize it in Google Meet so that anyone, like people joining from traveling can use it.
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