Don’t come in here with your Google Hangouts nonsense!
In an unscientific but undoubtedly accurate poll of judges around the country conducted by the National Judicial College, it turns out that courts are overwhelmingly preferring Zoom for their remote hearings.
The College emailed a survey to more than 12,000 judicial alumni nationally and received 702 responses, revealing that 48 percent are employing Zoom for these parleys with WebEx coming in a distant second at 25 percent. Beyond the top two, the survey found that judges deploy:
Skype (9.69%), Microsoft Teams (9.12%), GoToMeeting (6.13%), Google Hangouts (3.85%), BlueJeans (3.56%), CourtCall (3.13%), Adobe Connect (0.14%), and Other (10.54%).
Considering Microsoft owns both Skype and Teams I guess they’re doing well during this pandemic, but one wonders how much more they could’ve dominated had they not taken the dominant video conferencing tool in the world and run it into irrelevancy over the past decade. If you know someone who thinks Bill Gates caused COVID to increase his grip on global power, remind them that Gates has completely f**ked up the most logical way to profit off it.
Full results of the judicial survey are available here.
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