现在有如此多的视频通话软件工具可用，两个应用程序已成为该包的领导者：Microsoft Teams和Zoom。无论您是想与同事举行商务会议还是与朋友和家人举行在线假日聚会，我们都会通过检查它们之间的差异来帮助您决定选择哪种视频会议工具。
我们将讨论易用性和定价，并将比较Microsoft Teams与Zoom提供的功能。
你的用户是谁？
第一步是考虑你的听众。如果您的主要目标是在已经使用Microsoft(Microsoft)产品（尤其是Office365）(Office365—then)的组织或公司的同事之间主持商务会议，那么视频通话的明显选择是Microsoft Teams。
您还希望将Teams用于视频会议以外的其他用途。与Slack类似，Teams是一种一体化协作和通信解决方案，可与Outlook、OneDrive和Sharepoint等其他(Sharepoint)Office365应用程序无缝集成。
但是，如果您在工作中使用 Teams，而您的雇主不赞成将工作软件用于个人用途，您可能希望使用Zoom与朋友和家人开会。您始终可以(could )创建一个单独的个人Microsoft帐户，但在(Microsoft)Microsoft配置文件之间切换可能既麻烦又尴尬。使用不同的视频会议工具供个人使用可以解决这个问题。
即使您确实在工作中使用Teams，您仍可能希望使用Zoom与您组织外部的人开会。人们喜欢坚持他们所知道的，使用Zoom的人比Teams多得多。
关于易于安装的说明：Teams和Zoom都为用户提供了通过浏览器加入的选项，而不是下载桌面客户端。
Zoom为与会者提供了类似的加入方式。
通过浏览器加入是这两个应用程序中最简单的方法，尽管某些功能可能不可用。
费用是多少？
Teams和Zoom都有免费和付费版本。Microsoft为(Microsoft)Teams提供了许多不同的定价层，其中一些带有对其他Office365应用程序的不同程度的访问权限。
Teams的免费版本目前最多允许 300 名会议参与者，最长会议持续时间为 60 分钟。
Zoom 的免费版本最多可容纳 100 名参与者，会议时间最长可达 40 分钟。
Teams 最便宜的付费计划是每月 5 美元，并附带其他Office365应用程序，而最便宜的付费 Zoom 计划将花费您两倍以上的费用。
功能比较如何？
可以预见，Teams和Zoom中的视频通话具有许多相同的功能。无论(Whichever)您使用哪个应用程序，都将包含以下功能：
话虽如此，Microsoft Teams和Zoom之间的比较肯定不是苹果对苹果的。Teams是一种整体生产力工具，可与许多其他Office365应用程序集成。
Zoom的视频会议桌面客户端与Teams的功能不同，但Zoom确实提供了一个名为(Zoom)Zoom Chat的单独应用程序，它模仿了Teams中的一些功能。使用Zoom Chat，您可以访问群组频道、状态/状态指示器、可自定义通知和搜索功能等资源。
但请注意，Zoom会议邀请不会引导用户下载Zoom Chat应用程序，因此许多用户甚至不太可能知道它的存在。
安全
在 2020 年第一季度和第二季度出现一些重大安全问题之后（还记得Zoombombing吗？），Zoom对其安全措施进行了一些更改。对于Zoom上最安全的会议，您应该启用等候室和每次会议 ID。
关于 Teams 的安全性，微软表示(Microsoft says)，“ Teams强制执行团队范围和组织范围的双因素身份验证、通过Active Directory的单点登录以及传输和静态数据的加密。”
无论如何，微软(Microsoft)和Zoom都采取了措施来提高他们平台上会议的安全性，你可以信任这两个应用程序。
用户界面
新(New)用户可能会发现Teams的使用比Zoom更复杂，因为它是 Microsoft 更大范围的生产力、协作和通信工具的一部分。由于Teams(Teams)与其他Office应用程序集成的方式很多，因此存在初始学习曲线。
也就是说，集成是直观的，它们的有用性超过了所需的学习。此外，Teams 的视频会议控制非常简单。
Zoom视频会议控件同样简单易用。
在易用性和 UX 方面，这是Zoom和Microsoft Teams之间的一次折腾。
看起来不错
Zoom有一个Microsoft Teams缺乏的流行功能，称为“修饰我的外观(Touch up my appearance)” 。它的作用是均匀肤色和皱纹，去除眼睛下方的黑眼圈。
您可以在 Zoom 应用的设置中的(Settings )视频(Video )下找到此功能。
您不会在Teams中找到此功能，因此如果它对您很重要，请使用Zoom。
聊天
如果您使用的是Zoom桌面或网络客户端，Zoom聊天可能会在随机播放中丢失。聊天面板通常隐藏在其他打开的窗口后面，并且缺少格式控件是显而易见的。
(Teams)另一方面，团队聊天提供标准的文本格式选项，以及表情符号、贴纸和 GIF。
电话音频
任何人都可以通过电话加入Teams或Zoom会议。这两个应用程序都可以提供呼入号码，Teams甚至可以拨打电话。当你加入Teams会议时，你可以选择让Teams呼叫你的电话以将你连接到会议的音频。
进入会议后，会议组织者可以让Teams直接拨打电话号码。
这种呼出呼叫功能对非技术人员特别有用（我在看着你，爸爸(Dad)）。
分组讨论室
直到最近，如果您需要分组讨论室，Zoom 无疑(Zoom)是赢家。Teams直到2020 年 12 月(December 2020)才提供分组讨论室，在分组讨论室管理方面他们仍然落后。
相比之下，Zoom允许您在会议开始前将与会者分配到分组会议室，并在预定时间后自动关闭会议室。此外(Furthermore)，Zoom主持人和联席主持人可以随意进出分组讨论室。
团队分组讨论室目前不提供这些功能，但我们很可能会在未来看到它们。
建议：同时考虑Microsoft Teams和Zoom
如您所见，Microsoft Teams和Zoom在不同的情况下很有用。一般来说，如果您已经沉浸在Microsoft世界中，请坚持使用Teams。如果您最关心易用性或分组会议室控制，请使用Zoom。最终，如果这两个应用程序都不吸引您，那么也许是时候看看 Google Meet 了(check out Google Meet)！
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom: Which Is Better?
With so many video calling software tools now available, two apps have emerged as the leaders of the pack: Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Whether you want to host a business meeting with colleagues or an online holiday party with friends and family, we’ll help you decide which video conference tool to choose by examining the differences between them.
We’ll discuss ease of use and pricing, and we’ll compare the features offered by Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom.
Who Are Your Users?
The first step is to consider your audience. If your primary goal is to host business meetings among colleagues at an organization or company that already uses Microsoft products—especially Office365—then the obvious choice for video calls is Microsoft Teams.
You’ll want to use Teams for more than just video conferencing, too. Similar to Slack, Teams is an all-in-one collaboration and communication solution that integrates seamlessly with other Office365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Sharepoint.
If, however, you use Teams at work and your employer frowns upon using work software for personal use, you might want to use Zoom for meetings with friends and family. You could always create a separate personal Microsoft account, but switching between Microsoft profiles can be cumbersome and awkward. Using a different video conferencing tool for personal use solves that problem.
Even if you do use Teams at work, you still might want to use Zoom for meetings with people external to your organization. People like to stick with what they know, and far more people have experience using Zoom than Teams.
A note about ease of installation: Both Teams and Zoom give users the option to join via browser rather than downloading the desktop client.
Zoom gives meeting attendees similar ways to join.
Joining via browser is the easiest method in both apps, although some features may not be available.
What Will It Cost?
Both Teams and Zoom have free and paid versions. Microsoft offers a number of different pricing tiers for Teams, some of which come with varying degrees of access to other Office365 apps.
The free version of Teams currently allows up to 300 meeting participants and a maximum meeting duration of 60 minutes.
Zoom’s free version allows up to 100 participants, and meetings can last up to 40 minutes.
The cheapest of Teams’ paid plans is $5/month and comes with other Office365 applications, while the cheapest paid Zoom plan will cost you more than twice that.
How Do the Features Compare?
Predictably, video calls in Teams and Zoom have many of the same features. Whichever app you use, the following features will be included:
- Meeting scheduling
- Screen sharing
- File sharing
- Chat
- Virtual backgrounds
That being said, a comparison between Microsoft Teams and Zoom is certainly not apples-to-apples. Teams is a holistic productivity tool and integrates with many other Office365 applications.
Zoom’s desktop client for video conferencing doesn’t have the same features as Teams, but Zoom does offer a separate app called Zoom Chat that mimics some features found in Teams. With Zoom Chat, you’ll have access to resources such as group channels, status/presence indicators, customizable notifications, and search capability.
Be warned, though, Zoom meeting invitations do not direct users to download the Zoom Chat app, so many users are unlikely to even know it exists.
Security
After some major security problems in the first and second quarters of 2020 (remember Zoombombing?), Zoom made some changes to their security measures. For the most secure meetings on Zoom, you should enable the waiting room and per-meeting ID.
Regarding security on Teams, Microsoft says, “Teams enforces team-wide and organization-wide two-factor authentication, single sign-on through Active Directory, and encryption of data in transit and at rest.”
In any case, Microsoft and Zoom have taken measures to improve the security of meetings on their platforms, and you can trust both apps.
User Interface
New users may find Teams more complicated to use than Zoom since it is part of Microsoft’s much larger universe of productivity, collaboration, and communication tools. There is an initial learning curve because of the many ways Teams integrates with other Office apps.
That said, the integrations are intuitive, and their usefulness outweighs the required learning. Moreover, Teams’ video conference controls are straightforward.
The Zoom video conference controls are similarly simple and user-friendly.
It’s a toss-up between Zoom and Microsoft Teams when it comes to ease of use and UX.
Looking Good
Zoom has a popular feature that Microsoft Teams lacks called Touch up my appearance. It works by evening out skin tone and wrinkles and removes dark circles from under your eyes.
You can find this feature under Video in Settings in the Zoom app.
You won’t find this feature in Teams, so if it’s important to you, use Zoom.
Chats
If you’re using the Zoom desktop or web clients, Zoom chats can get lost in the shuffle. The chat panel often hides behind other open windows, and the lack of formatting controls is noticeable.
Teams chat, on the other hand, provides the standard text formatting options, along with emoji, stickers, and gifs.
Audio by Telephone
Anyone can join a Teams or Zoom meeting by telephone. Both apps can provide call-in numbers, and Teams can even make outbound calls. When you’re joining a Teams meeting, you can choose to have Teams call your phone to connect you to the meeting’s audio.
Once in a meeting, the meeting organizer can have Teams call a phone number directly.
This outbound calling feature is particularly useful with non-technical people (I’m looking at you, Dad).
Breakout Rooms
Until quite recently, if you needed breakout rooms, Zoom was the clear winner. Teams didn’t offer breakout rooms until December 2020, and they’re still trailing when it comes to breakout room management.
In contrast, Zoom lets you assign attendees to breakout rooms before the meeting starts and automatically close rooms after a predetermined duration. Furthermore, Zoom hosts and co-hosts can pop in and out of breakout rooms at will.
Teams breakout rooms currently offer none of those features, but we’re likely to see them down the road.
Recommendation: Consider Both Microsoft Teams and Zoom
As you can see, Microsoft Teams and Zoom can be useful in different situations. In general, if you are already immersed in the Microsoft universe, stick with Teams. If you are most concerned with ease of use or breakout room controls, then go with Zoom. Ultimately, if neither app appeals to you, then perhaps it’s time to check out Google Meet!
