Microsoft Teams can soon be set as default on Cisco conferencing hardware
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#64MSW)
Cisco's Room Bar (pictured) will be among the first of its devices to be Teams certified. | Image: Cisco Cisco's video conferencing hardware will be updated to let users set Microsoft Teams as the default video conferencing software, the two companies have announced. Initially six devices will be certified to work with Teams in the first half of next year, including the Cisco Room Bar (a combined speaker and webcam), the 55 and 75-inch versions of the Cisco Board Pro (a freestanding screen designed for video conferencing) and the Cisco Room Kit Pro.
Cisco's press release stresses that its own Webex video calling software (which it paid billions for a little over a decade ago) isn't going anywhere. The devices will continue to support joining Webex meetings with all the features and functionality customers enjoy today," the release notes....