Google, Microsoft and Cisco are giving free software to work from home

Coronavirus is spreading dangerously throughout the world. So far, more than 93,000 cases of infection with this virus have been reported from across the world and the global death toll has crossed the 3,200 mark. Facebook, Twitter and many other technology companies have started encouraging their employees to work from home to protect them from the infection of this deadly virus. The company believes that people can avoid this infection by staying at home. Let us tell you that this disease called Coronavirus or COVID-19 started from Wuhan in China and till now this infection has reached different parts of America, Europe, India, South Korea and many other countries. It is believed that this infection spreads like flu, hence companies are trying to ensure that their employees avoid physical meetings and for this, Google, Microsoft and Cisco together are giving their self-made communication tools to the employees for free.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday Announcement It has been informed that the company will provide free access to Hangouts Meet video conferencing capabilities for all G Suite customers around the world. This free access will begin this week and will be available at no charge until July 1.

A blog post shared on the Google Cloud portal has given more information on this. According to the post, through Google Hangout Meet, employees will be able to participate in meetings sitting at home. In this, 250 employees will be able to participate simultaneously per call. Apart from this, live streaming will be possible for 1,00,000 viewers within one domain. Even the meeting can be recorded and saved on Google Drive.

All of these features are typically available in the enterprise edition of G Suite and the G Suite Enterprise edition for education. However, the company is now making this facility available for all G Suite users for free, so that all employees can easily do both work and meetings.

Like Google, Microsoft has also given free access to its Teams platform to everyone for six months. Announcement Is of. With this, users can connect with their companies, schools and colleges from home using the internet.

Cisco has also taken a similar step and announced free access to its video conferencing tool Webex. This free feature is for all the countries where it is available. These free facilities provided by Cisco, Google and Microsoft will greatly help the public in working from home in this difficult time.