Originally Posted by
darthbimmer
As for video conferencing software... More likely than not your employer has standardized on one or a few of these tools, and you should use those. If you've got room to pick and aren't sure which to choose, consider my experiences:
- Zoom: Best overall. Professional quality, scalable, reliable, and feature-rich.
- GoToMeeting: Runner-up. Professional, scalable, reliable, and feature-rich. Some of my colleagues ding it for having a "confusing" UI. I think their mistake is trying to use the web UI instead of downloading the desktop client or app.
- Webex: the UI is primitive and lacks sharing features present in many other tools.
- Skype: Second-class features, performance, and reliability.
- Google Hangouts: Limited feature set but very easy to use, especially if you're on GSuite. Great for small groups, scales poorly beyond that.
- Slack: an excellent chat tool with terrible video conferencing. Slow performance, frequent drops, hangs the app. Stick to typing for now!
You forgot Teams! Microsoft is discontinuing Skype for Business this year and replacing it with Teams. Teams is great.