The paid version allows team members to share files, up to one terabyte per user, schedule meetings directly from Outlook, record meetings and collaborate on documents using the desktop Office programs and SharePoint Online. Meanwhile, Microsoft Teams, a successor to Skype for Business, is included as a feature in Microsoft’s Office 365 commercial suite. The company recently increased the limit for its native video-calling app for smartphones, Google duo to 12 participants. Google offers free video-conferencing through its Hangout Meet conferencing platform for larger meetings with up to 250 participants and live streaming for 100,000 viewers within a domain. It is also working to bring end-to-end encryption and ephemerality to boost user experience on the platform.įacebook Joins Other Desktop Video Communication Providersįacebook’s Messenger desktop app joins the increasingly important pool of videoconferencing tools such as Alphabet GOOGL Google’s Hangout, Microsoft’s MSFT Teams and Zoom Video ZM, which is currently facing backlash for its privacy and security issues. Moreover, the tech giant is rewriting the app from scratch to make it the fastest and most secure major messaging platform in the world.
Notably, Facebook opened the Messenger app, which has more than 1 billion users, to developers for creating chatbots that will enable businesses to extend customer service and other transactions. Messenger’s desktop app has features similar to its smartphone app version including group video calls, Dark mode, GIFs, chat syncs and notification settings including mute notifications.įacebook said that there has been a 100% increase in people using their desktop browser for audio and video calling on Messenger. But as the conference was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the app has been launched as Messenger witnessed a huge surge in audio and video conferencing owing to lockdowns across the globe in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The social media giant had originally announced the Messenger desktop apps at its F8 conference a year ago. Facebook FB has launched the very first standalone Messenger app for desktop, available for Microsoft Windows and Apple’s macOS.
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