{"id":205879,"date":"2022-10-28T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205879"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:21:58","slug":"improved-interoperability-zoom-google-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/improved-interoperability-zoom-google-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Google announces improved interoperability between Zoom and Google Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the key aspects of the battle between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 in recent weeks has been interoperability. We have seen both productivity suites announcing a raft of features designed to make their programs able to work with third-party apps more efficiently, including even boosting interoperability between the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-word.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Word<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/google-docs.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Docs<\/a>. Today we can report on a further move in this direction as <strong>Google has announced it is partnering with Zoom to ensure Google Meet users can hold virtual meetings with more people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Google Meet\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/3e3d6aea-07d5-11e7-b506-102aa86b9d61\/377455260\/google-meet-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Google Meet<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/google-meet.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/google-meet.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has announced via a Google Cloud <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/workspace\/making-meet-available-on-multiple-hardware-and-software-platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post<\/a> that it has <strong>finalized a partnership deal with Zoom that will enable bi-directional interoperability between the two video conferencing apps<\/strong>. The move means that users across both platforms will be able to meet with each other, simply by clicking on a calendar invite or entering a meeting code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is one interesting consideration, however, that users will need to take into account. <strong>All Zoom users will be able to seamlessly join conference calls and meeting on Google Meet<\/strong> but there will be limitations on which Google Meet users can join Zoom calls. <strong>Only Google Meet users who are running ChromeOS-based Meet devices will be able to join Zoom calls<\/strong>. There is no news about why there is this limitation but the Google Cloud blog post announcing the move did mention that it would be <strong>like this \u201cat launch\u201d<\/strong> meaning the interoperability features <strong>may roll out to all Google Meet users at some point in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditionally, Zoom and Google Meet would be competitive apps trying to get one over on each other, but this is a smart move from Google as it opens up seamless interactions for businesses that use Google Workspace with the many businesses that use Zoom for their video communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other <a href=\"https:\/\/google-workspace.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Workspace news<\/a>, users now have access to <a href=\"https:\/\/google-workspace.en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-boosting-scheduling-options-workspace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enhanced scheduling options<\/a> when organizing meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key aspects of the battle between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 in recent weeks has been interoperability. We have seen both productivity suites announcing a raft of features designed to make their programs able to work with third-party apps more efficiently, including even boosting interoperability between the likes of Microsoft Word and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/improved-interoperability-zoom-google-meet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google announces improved interoperability between Zoom and Google Meet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":205910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3143,2397],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-205879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-meet","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionzoom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322973,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205879\/revisions\/322973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205879"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=205879"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=205879"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=205879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}