Google Meet and Microsoft Teams cross the streams in the meeting room

The trouble with remote video conferencing is that there are so many platforms, and if you’re comfortable with one, having to use another can be jarring. And who wants that in the workplace?

Google and Microsoft, it seems, are doing a little bit to lower that barrier. Interoperability is now possible between Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, albeit, not for everyone.

With the right hardware setups, though, it is now possible to join a Microsoft Teams meeting from a Google Meet device, and vice versa.

We’re introducing video conferencing device interoperability for Google Meet with Microsoft Teams, which will allow you to:

– Join Microsoft Teams meetings from Chrome OS– based Google Meet hardware devices

– Join Google Meet meetings from Windows-based Microsoft Teams Rooms devices.

Assuming the correct hardware is in play, the feature is rolling out now and will be turned on by default. Both