Your Computer Could Be Listening To Your Microphone and Sending Out Ultrasound …
As a company, I have a great deal of time for Cisco Systems. Basically, they helped build the foundation of the Internet, and they still provide the majority of the core networking infastructure. And, for video conferencing, they had the opportunity to rise up and become a world leader. So, as the pandemic happened, Cisco Webex was probably in a prime position to take a large part of the video conferencing market.
At the start of the pandemic (Spring 2020), Microsoft was nowhere in the video conferencing market, and was struggling to scale its Skype software into a video conferencing world. Basically, Skype had focused on speech and linking to telephones, and generally struggled with video conferencing. Microsoft also had SharePoint, and which lacked any real integration with video conferencing.
But, in 2020, Webex was the star of the corporate market. Unfortunately, its clunky UI and poor UX made it look was like something that had been designed by a software engineer, and focused on those who were technically saive. Perhaps it felt like it had been designed for corporate video conferencing suites, and not for users setting up in their own environment. Cisco Systems were the lead in IP phones at the time, and that was the core communications infrastructure that most companies used —…
