Various organisations expect me to use (Microsoft) Teams, Zoom, or Meet for video conferencing. Let me say from the get go that I hate Teams; it causes all sorts of issues for me and others involved in the same video conferences. Many is the time that we have all struggled to access a Teams meeting and experienced great hassle from it irresective of using the program or the web client. (I prefer program access.)
As all these systems are based on WebRTC with the meeting codes having the same format irrespective of the actual software developer all makes me wonder if interoperability is a possibility? I would much rather use Zoom, which causes less hassles, than Teams (and to-date no one has suggested Meet but I’m expecting it). Really want to snub Microsoft and sign into my Teams meetings using Zoom. Possible? Easy? Effective?
My understanding is that each system is proprietary, beyond anything else, each system runs it’s own encryption, so I don’t see how they could talk to each other.
If this was a possibility, I think we’d have seen a product which facilitated it.
Primarily I and my associates experiences horrendous problems simply connecting to meetings following web links. Trying to connect directly with meeting id and password is painfully difficult too.
More than once I’ve lost the meeting window when Cmd-Tabbing to another program to locate supporting information to present.
Plus I’m Microsoft averse. Teams is the only one of their products I permit on my Macs and if I ever persuade the meeting organiser(s) to move away from it will take great delight in deleting the program off my systems.
I agree. Teams has been pretty awful for me as well. I’ve come across interoperability in spots in the enterprise but it’s rare. The technology exists, but it definitely isn’t widely deployed.
Sure. Here’s one; most of what I’ve seen has been to provide interoperability to endpoints and room based systems, or to enable the ability to join meetings over SIP enabled devices.
To put it harshly: no. Even though they may be using the same video stream protocol over the wire, there are a lot of different proprietary stuff (from encryption and identity management to client video options) that make it impossible.
For that to work MS Teams should have some kind of Zoom interop plugin that as far as I know it does not exist.
Shall have to hope that now Microsoft has decoupled Teams from commercail office setups that the one organisation that has bought into the “no one got fired from buying Microsoft” mantra for its internal use and switch in a video conferencing program that does not cause every participant to have hypertension when trying to connect.
Amongst my associates where we all have to use Teams I am the only one not using Windows but our mutual experience is the same naffness of the product.
