Story by Luke O’Neill, TechTarget
Microsoft executive Michael Angiulo had a thought: If a couple teenagers in separate parts of the country, or world, can connect in a minute or two and talk, look at and play a video game together, then why can’t a corporate meeting be cobbled together just as easily? Why, he mulled, does a video conference take several minutes to start? If setting up a meeting is so simple with a video game console, like an Xbox, why isn’t there an equivalent device that can be used to connect workers in a corporate setting?