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I'm not sure how this relates to Teams whatsoever and why you're drawing the comparison. Teams is for organizations who have Office 365. Duo is person to person

by opmac 7y ago

I'm not sure how this relates to Teams whatsoever and why you're drawing the comparison. Teams is for organizations who have Office 365. Duo is person to person chat... think Apple Facetime. I can't call up my Mom on Teams. I can with Duo.

danielscrubs 7y ago
It's funny, because a friend of mine wanted to video chat yesterday. I wanted to use Hangouts, but he doesn't have an Google account (he's a director of his own company so he lives and dies with the company email), in the end he said: - No problem we'll just use Teams. Not having to create an account was kind of mind-blowing for me (in the "where's is the business incentive in not taking my email, and spamming it?!" kind of way).
- cosmie 7y ago
  > so he lives and dies with the company email While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail account. You just have to choose "Use my current email address instead" on the signup page[1]. [1] https://accounts.google.com/signup/ https://accounts.google.com/signup/
- pcx 7y ago
  You should try https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si. Started using it this week, works great with no login necessary. And open source :)
  - danielscrubs 7y ago
    Crashed the tab for me on Safari and they themselves say it's Chome only. Will be following it though!
    - pcx 7y ago
      Works great on Firefox for me
    - naasking 7y ago
      > Crashed the tab for me on Safari and they themselves say it's Chome only. It apparently does work in Firefox, but only at higher bitrate HD mode so it's not great if you don't have the bandwidth.
- Jonnax 7y ago
  Skype for business, zoom, WebEx all don't require you to give an email to join a meeting.
- mavhc 7y ago
  https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/ https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/ has had web video calling with no sign up for years now, although they were terrible at advertising it, because when they re-told everyone last week it was reported by almost every tech site as a new feature
maxerickson 7y ago
There's a free tier that is open to individuals.
- maxerickson 7y ago
  Here's what their faq say: "Who’s eligible for the free version of Microsoft Teams?" "Anyone with any corporate or consumer email address can sign up for Teams today.…" Those elusive "consumer email" addresses. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...
  - tirpen 7y ago
    I have no idea what a "consumer email address" is and the page does not explain it. Consumer of what? If they meant to say "any email address" they really should rethink their language to be less dehumanizing.
- disillusioned 7y ago
  Yeah but... I'm not putting my mom on Teams. Ever. She figured out Duo in 5 seconds because there's almost nothing to figure out.
  - maxerickson 7y ago
    Sure, but there is a difference between Teams having a corporate focus and Teams requiring an Office 365 subscription.
bane 7y ago
Please read what I said again, I think google should move more towards an integrated application that has several different kinds of communication modes in it vs. half a dozen applications in various states of languishing, usability, and availability.
- ehsankia 7y ago
  They do, but this isn't it. You are comparing their personal video chat offering to Microsoft's business offering... Google Chat and Google Meet are the equivalent of Teams, and have a fairly similar feature set.

by opmac 7y ago

danielscrubs 7y ago

It's funny, because a friend of mine wanted to video chat yesterday. I wanted to use Hangouts, but he doesn't have an Google account (he's a director of his own company so he lives and dies with the company email), in the end he said: - No problem we'll just use Teams. Not having to create an account was kind of mind-blowing for me (in the "where's is the business incentive in not taking my email, and spamming it?!" kind of way).

cosmie 7y ago
> so he lives and dies with the company email While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail account. You just have to choose "Use my current email address instead" on the signup page[1]. [1] https://accounts.google.com/signup/ https://accounts.google.com/signup/
pcx 7y ago
You should try https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si. Started using it this week, works great with no login necessary. And open source :)
- danielscrubs 7y ago
  Crashed the tab for me on Safari and they themselves say it's Chome only. Will be following it though!
  - pcx 7y ago
    Works great on Firefox for me
  - naasking 7y ago
    > Crashed the tab for me on Safari and they themselves say it's Chome only. It apparently does work in Firefox, but only at higher bitrate HD mode so it's not great if you don't have the bandwidth.
Jonnax 7y ago
Skype for business, zoom, WebEx all don't require you to give an email to join a meeting.
mavhc 7y ago
https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/ https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/ has had web video calling with no sign up for years now, although they were terrible at advertising it, because when they re-told everyone last week it was reported by almost every tech site as a new feature

maxerickson 7y ago

There's a free tier that is open to individuals.

maxerickson 7y ago
Here's what their faq say: "Who’s eligible for the free version of Microsoft Teams?" "Anyone with any corporate or consumer email address can sign up for Teams today.…" Those elusive "consumer email" addresses. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...
- tirpen 7y ago
  I have no idea what a "consumer email address" is and the page does not explain it. Consumer of what? If they meant to say "any email address" they really should rethink their language to be less dehumanizing.
disillusioned 7y ago
Yeah but... I'm not putting my mom on Teams. Ever. She figured out Duo in 5 seconds because there's almost nothing to figure out.
- maxerickson 7y ago
  Sure, but there is a difference between Teams having a corporate focus and Teams requiring an Office 365 subscription.

bane 7y ago

Please read what I said again, I think google should move more towards an integrated application that has several different kinds of communication modes in it vs. half a dozen applications in various states of languishing, usability, and availability.

ehsankia 7y ago
They do, but this isn't it. You are comparing their personal video chat offering to Microsoft's business offering... Google Chat and Google Meet are the equivalent of Teams, and have a fairly similar feature set.