The Virtual Conferencing Scene is all About Zoom & Microsoft Teams - & Cisco Webex!

 

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The online scope of video conferencing and virtual meetings has been magnified and popularized rapidly with the sudden spread of COVID-19 which has forced millions of business owners, employers, students and teachers and many more to resort to the internet to conduct their meetings and classes. Major apps such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams have been dominating the scene for months now; and each video conferencing platform is always trying to beat the others by presenting a more varied bundle of virtual features and controls that'll enable the user to have the most optimal online gathering possible. Another interesting app that has joined the race early is Cisco Webex and it successfully managed to help millions of people around the world amidst the super increasing demands for trusted online, video-conferencing-dedicated services. 

Microsoft Teams 

The three major video meeting platforms of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex have seen a huge increase in the number of their users over the past months; and in order to remain on top, each app regularly unveils more revamped and new features based on the feedback of the daily user. Zoom is currently considered the best platform to conduct big online meetings and school classes; the app also introduced a videos-rearranging feature recently designed to grant the user the ability to reorder the videos in front of him the way he wants. It's indeed a simple drag-and-drop function that's been demanded by the Zoom community for quite some time now. The best thing about Zoom is that the app actually listens to the demands of its fan base and tries to respond as quickly as possible; and that has enabled Zoom to become no. 1 in the market in a short period of time. 

Zoom

But despite being the optimal platform for video conferencing, Zoom still faces ferocious competition from Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex. The highly escalating demands for a reliable video meeting service makes it quite hard for one app to serve hundreds of millions of people monthly; the Zoom platform can actually get quite overwhelmed by the number of users. Microsoft Teams is the other optimal platform for video meetings. The excellent factor that brought more popularity to Microsoft Teams is its availability for everybody to utilize easily - with no complicated requirements. The Microsoft Teams platform offers plenty of features to control your online meeting effectively. 

Cisco Webex Meetings 

As for Cisco Webex - a video, audio and messaging app - this platform works harder in order to help the user work both from home and from office. Webex is now helping people returning to their offices to organize their work spaces and guarantee that social distancing is taking place. Webex may be the app targeted more at business meetings and online investment events, but still it received a staggering number of new users over the past few months with about 500 million users and online meeting participants.