[AGL] Zoom vs Skype vs all the other browser based conferencing apps

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I wasted a lot of time yesterday trying to make Zoom work. I was able to 
initiate a Zoom conference/conversation between our 2 computers. I have 
successfully Zoomed twice and failed twice as an invitee waiting in the 
"Waiting Room" until host invited me in. This is an academic discussion 
group at UT and not having a UT email address I have to be invited by 
the host. In one of the failures, I saw the face of the host and he me 
momentarily before the connection failed.

It occurs to me while doing my exercises that Skype has got to be the 
best conferencing app because it is a standalone program whereas the 
others use a browser interface which is a bad choice because of the 
infinite proliferation of different browsers and different versions of 
those browsers.  An x amount of coding incompatibilies.
Zoom informed me that my Firefox browser wouldn't work and to hie myself 
to the Chrome browser.