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Thanks for the detailed resume of all this Zoom situation.
I have never used it and I wasn´t really understanding some things like how it was so easy to find these open Zoom meetings.
Guessable ids and file names?? Really?? That is like the Web security 101 :(
I guess Zoom never expected to be so widely used outside of the corporate environment. Still, these are pretty serious security issues.
I was also surprised by all this sudden Zoom adoption. I mean, it had a niche usage before. Why not Hangouts or Skype/Teams for example? Not saying these are better, but I thought they were more known by the general public. And schools etc probably are already using Google or MST services internally.
I was also surprised by all this sudden Zoom adoption. I mean, it had a niche usage before. Why not Hangouts or Skype/Teams for example? Not saying these are better, but I thought they were more known by the general public. And schools etc probably are already using Google or MST services internally.
I'm not familiar with Microsoft Teams, but Skype requires users to register, Zoom doesn't. You could literally hop in in a meeting in a few seconds, now it takes a little bit longer as the installer is a regular one but still you don't need to have an account.
Also, do Skype or Team have URLs for meetings? That's a huge factor in adoption, people can send each other meeting rooms and not have to coordinate by who calls whom, as in video within chat apps like WhatsApp
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There's also a big mentality of "I use this for work, it's free, let's use it for other things.". Zoom has a huge usage share in business for a number of reasons (aside from what you mentioned, they also let you record meetings, which a number of other options can't do without using screen-recording tools).
Thanks for the detailed resume of all this Zoom situation.
I have never used it and I wasn´t really understanding some things like how it was so easy to find these open Zoom meetings.
Guessable ids and file names?? Really?? That is like the Web security 101 :(
I guess Zoom never expected to be so widely used outside of the corporate environment. Still, these are pretty serious security issues.
I was also surprised by all this sudden Zoom adoption. I mean, it had a niche usage before. Why not Hangouts or Skype/Teams for example? Not saying these are better, but I thought they were more known by the general public. And schools etc probably are already using Google or MST services internally.
I'm not familiar with Microsoft Teams, but Skype requires users to register, Zoom doesn't. You could literally hop in in a meeting in a few seconds, now it takes a little bit longer as the installer is a regular one but still you don't need to have an account.
Also, do Skype or Team have URLs for meetings? That's a huge factor in adoption, people can send each other meeting rooms and not have to coordinate by who calls whom, as in video within chat apps like WhatsApp
There's also a big mentality of "I use this for work, it's free, let's use it for other things.". Zoom has a huge usage share in business for a number of reasons (aside from what you mentioned, they also let you record meetings, which a number of other options can't do without using screen-recording tools).
Yes, recording meetings is definitely useful, especially in distributed companies