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Why Zoom when you have already got GSuite? Google Meeting is great, it works in the browser and does not need any additional software.

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Am I the only one who thinks Google Meet is no where near Zoom (stability, resolution, etc)?

I doubt it works on Safari (it won't let me talk). If you ask why I'm on Safari, it's because I couldn't grant it microphone access on Chrome (for unknown reason).

You are not the only one. In my experience Google Meet is significantly worse than Zoom, especially under pressure. Even slight degradation in bandwidth that zoom scarcely notices causes dramatic sync and audio issues, and it almost always seems to have worse video resolution than zoom under similar network conditionns. I used to think it was only like that because I didn't have very beefy hardware but having upgraded my laptop to a very high end processor spec and lots of memory it hasn't improved at all.

I don't know where you guys work but I have worked in very big co with meeting attended by entire organization > 50 and much more. Google Meeting, in chrome, worked just fine. I am not sure about other browsers. But I prefer chrome to having to install a client. Also, I find Google Meeting interface much cleaner and easy to use than Zoom. In addition, you can record meetings; they are stored in GDrive and you can share them. Plus, you get captions and transcriptions. All in all, is a much superior product.

Google meet in Chrome is way better than Zoom. Safari is a different story, it keeps reloading for me every 15 minutes.

Yeah, I feel like it only works in Chrome. After a few minutes of having it open in Firefox the quality degrades to the point it becomes unusable.

A few reasons (caveat: this was all in early 2020): 1) We kinda got forced into it since most of our customers were using it. 2) GSuite kept annoying changing what was in our plan for Google Meet. 3) The video/application audio sharing and quality felt superior than zoom at the time.

Also for the price of Zoom, GSuite + Slack, you can get Office 365 including Teams for about half the price.

In the UK Microsoft Teams has become the de-facto business video call standard, but aware this is different in other parts of the world.

And you will need Word and PowerPoint anyway if you want to easily and properly interact with other companies without compatibility issues (try sending contracts with redline back and forward with comments and tracking between Google Docs and Word!). Sure you can operate with Google Docs using LibreOffice as well, but in my experience it's just not as friction-less as O365 and actually for what you get it's great value.

You can take Slack off me when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.

Agreed - Teams has a truly terrible messaging interface. Organization is nearly nonexistent, and the UI is awful.

On the other hand, I find Teams video conferencing to be pretty good for video meetings. Once you get to a certain number of people, Zoom starts to do better interface-wise, but for a useful number of participants Teams has been relatively friction-free for me.

> Teams has a truly terrible messaging interface. Organization is nearly nonexistent, and the UI is awful

Also, if you have a slightly older workstation, your tab on which teams run will definitely crash. Mostly.

I agree on the GSuite experience, but you can use Zoom in the browser FWIW. You have to not click 'open zoom app' to get the option to do so.

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