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The down-low on the download (or lack thereof!)

Posted by patrick

“So Fuze Meeting is browser-based and I don’t have to download anything. So what?”

“I download things all the time. iTunes is a 70.8MB download. Yahoo IM is a 17MB download. I download apps to my iPhone like it’s a morphine drip. I download movies to my laptop almost every week and would be nowhere without HBO’s Entourage downloaded to my iPod Touch.”

So, why do we care that Fuze Meeting is browser-based and not a download?

Because we are last-minute kind of people that get ready for our online meetings 10 minutes before they start. And because online meeting software available today has conditioned us that online meetings are not intuitive and difficult. How many times has your 10am online meeting started at 10:17am because everyone participating is trying to figure how to get the software working. It’s a negotiation to get the software working leaving everyone frustrated before the meeting even starts and renders you worthless should you try to have an ad-hoc last minute meeting. The whole experience available today is the digital moral equivalent of trying to catch a cab during shift change in Manhattan. Please kill me!

Doesn’t browser-based make more sense now? I thought so. And, no, we don’t discriminate. Bring Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, whatever. Bring it. You will love doing online meetings with Fuze Meeting all inside of a browser. It’s so easy.

So, that’s the down-low on the download. You should check it out. It’s free. http://www.fuzemeeting.com.

Note:  This isn’t to say we will NEVER do a “pro” version for download.  We’re in love with Hulu’s Desktop Pro App — we just want to make it EASY for you — our users — to interact with our service!

Posted by Patrick on behalf of Brook West.