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Employees with Microsoft's Boise office gather to show Today's 6 a new video-conferencing system with the potential to help Treasure Valley businesses large and small "go green."
Video-conferencing itself has been around a long time and is often thought of as confusing and expensive. Microsoft hopes to change that with its Live Meeting web-based service.
"Microsoft wanted to take that whole technology and push it down and make it simple," explains Microsoft Sales Specialist Roger Wilding.
If more people can sign up, there's a greater potential for "green" impact too. Since video conferencing allows companies to cut travel budgets, they can cut out jet fuel and gas use and reduce carbon output.
In the demonstration for Today's 6, Microsoft's Live Meeting setup utilized the company's Roundtable camera, a 360-degree smart-cam that follows the voices of individual speakers and can follow movements as well. The camera helps create an "interactive" meeting environment between co-workers hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Still, Microsoft says its Live Meeting service will work with a variety of hardware options. That opens up affordability to large and small businesses and even hotels, schools and hospitals.
To see a demonstration of Microsoft's Live Meeting and to learn more, click on the Today's Channel 6 News Video Link.
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