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| Microsoft announces record numbers and demand for video calls continues to increase |
Microsoft said on Thursday: As employees travel remotely, the number of video calls and Teams services used by educational institutions has exploded in the past few weeks, and some American schools have canceled courses for the rest of the year.
The tech giant said: The video calls via The Times, which compete with apps like Slake and Zoom, increased by 1000% in March, but no absolute numbers were provided. The company said the proportion of video conferencing and phone calls more than doubled from 21% last month to 43%.
Microsoft also said that 183,000 educational institutions in 175 countries use educational teams, each of which can include a school they attend. The company added that as of March 31, the total number of minutes all TMS users spent at the meeting was 2.7 billion minutes, three times on March 19 (estimated at 900 million minutes).
Based on measures to prevent and reduce the new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, measures have forced many countries to close schools, many facilities, services, work tools and distance education quickly in recent weeks.
(Joel Wallenström) - Wickr, CEO of end-to-end encoding messaging (Wickr), said weekly service sales more than doubled in one month. The function of the service (Wicker) is to provide fully encrypted video calls to up to 50 participants, and (Wicker) generally provides services to executives or security teams of large companies looking for cryptographic functions for discussion or financing or secret government service.
(Slake) said last month: March 25, while the number of concurrent users increased from 10 million on March 10 to 12.5 million. The number of participants in the daily zoom meeting in March increased from 10 million to more than 300 million.
However, the rise of Zoom sparked a global response to security and privacy concerns, as Google prevented employees from using the app, and SpaceX, a subsidiary of famous business owner Elon Musk, recently banned your employees from using Zoom, and asked the Taiwanese government authorities to stop using the application .