Did You Know That The Teams App Is Just A Browser?
The App uses Electron and the Web Version uses Edge!
Let’s start with a bit of theory … the Microsoft Teams App uses the Electron-based App — and is basically a customized browser. It thus has cookies, session strings, and logs. The Web version uses Microsoft Edge and which has considerably better security than the App. Confused, already? Then read on …
The three phases of video conferencing?
Now we have that out of the way, let’s see how we have evolved in our online presence over the past few years of the pandemic. Before this, we often used Cisco phones in order to create Web conferences. This was a happy world of pressing buttons on phones. The concept of us needing to use video for all our meetings and interactions seemed a crazy far future world. If we needed it, we’d use Skype for convenience. But the pandemic changed everything, as we rush to find a way that allowed us to continue our business and social world in an online way. In an instance, video calling became a defacto tool. And, without it, we would have crashed our economies and our social life.
For many, we have followed a number of phases:
- Phase 1. Using WebEx, and often disliking its performance and useability. In many…
