Skype has launched Meet Now, a web-app that allows you to create and participate in calls without the need to have an account on the platform. Here’s how it works
Skype tries to catch up with Zoom and launches a new feature: Meet Now that allows you to participate in a video call without the need to have a registered account on the platform. Since the lockdown began with the obligation for many companies to work in smart working mode, applications for video calls have had an unexpected growth. The reason for this is quite simple: you don’t have to register and you can just click on a link to access the conference call or meeting. In recent days, however, Zoom has also begun to show its first problems, especially on the side of privacy and security. Meet Now is Skype’s answer to Zoom: to create or participate in a video call you don’t need to be registered to the platform, but just access the web-app from your browser and click on a link. In just a few seconds you can join the meeting without the need to create an account.
How Skype Meet Now works
Ease of use and immediacy, these are the two characteristics of Skype Meet Now, the new feature of the world’s most famous platform for video calls. What is the peculiarity of Skype Meet Now? You don’t have to be registered to participate in a meeting, you just need to have a device with a browser and a good Internet connection.
How does Skype Meet Now work? You need to access the web page via your browser and press the “Create a free meeting” button and wait a few seconds for the meeting link to be created. Once established you get a link that you can immediately share with your work colleagues (just press on the “Share invitation” button) and then click on “Start call” to start the meeting.
In case we are not the creators of the call, but simple invitees, just click on the link we received and the call will start directly on the browser page.
Skype Meet Now has the same features as Skype: you can record the call and save it to listen again later, or blur the background before the meeting starts. You can also share your screen to discuss work documents with your colleagues.
How to download Skype Meet Now
Skype Meet Now is not an application you have to download, but it’s a web-app you can access through your browser. You have to enter the URL of the service and you directly access all the functions, without the need to install a new program on your PC or an app on your smartphone.