Windows 10: Google Meet premium video conferencing free for everyone

Brink · Apr 29, 2020

Technology that connects us while we're apart helps keep us safe and productive. Over the past few months, weâve seen the power of video meetings bring us togetherâwhether weâre working with teammates, talking to healthcare professionals, sharing with loved ones, or learning from home.

Today, weâre making Google Meet, our premium video conferencing product, free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. Weâve invested years in making Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution thatâs trusted by schools, governments and enterprises around the world, and in recent months weâve accelerated the release of top-requested features to make it even more helpful. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to our business and education users, such as simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including an expanded tiled view.

Itâs important that everyone who uses Meet has a secure and reliable experience from the start, so beginning next week, weâll be gradually expanding its availability to more and more people over the following weeks. This means you might not be able to create meetings at meet.google.com right away, but you can sign up to be notified when itâs available.

Meet operates on a secure foundation, keeping users safe, data secure, and information privateâincluding between patients and caregivers.

Video meetings built on a secure foundation

Meet is designed, built and operated to be secure at scale. Since January, weâve seen Meetâs peak daily usage grow by 30x. As of this month, Meet is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, Meetâs daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million. With this growth comes great responsibility. Privacy and security are paramount, no matter if itâs a doctor sharing confidential health information with a patient, a financial advisor hosting a client meeting, or people virtually connecting with each other for graduations, holidays and happy hours.

Our approach to security is simple: make products safe by default. We designed Meet to operate on a secure foundation, providing the protections needed to keep our users safe, their data secure, and their information private. Here are just a few of our default-on safety measures:

We provide a strong set of host controls such as the ability to admit or deny entry to a meeting, and mute or remove participants, if needed.

We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

Meet meeting codes are complex by default and therefore resilient to brute-force âguessing.â

Meet video meetings are encrypted in transit, and all recordings stored in Google Drive are encrypted in transit and at rest.

We donât require plugins to use Meet on the web. It works entirely in Chrome and other modern browsers, so itâs less vulnerable to security threats.

On mobile, we have dedicated Google Meet apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Meet users can enroll their account in Googleâs Advanced Protection Programâour strongest protections available against phishing and account hijacking.

Google Cloud undergoes regular rigorous security and privacy audits for all its services. Our global compliance certifications can help support regulatory requirements such as GDPR and HIPAA, as well as COPPA and FERPA for education.

Your Meet data is not used for advertising, and we don't sell your data to third parties.

We operate a highly secure and resilient private network that encircles the globe and connects our data centers to each otherâensuring that your data stays safe. Trust is built on transparency and we publish the locations of all our data centers. You can learn more about how Meet keeps your video meetings safe in this post.

Free Google Meet accounts for individuals

You can use Meet to schedule, join or start secure video meetings with anyoneâfor a virtual yoga class, weekly book club, neighborhood meeting, or happy hour with friends. Until now, Meet has only been available as part of G Suite, our collaboration and productivity solution for businesses, organizations and schools. Going forward, Meet will be available to anyone for free on the web at meet.google.com and via mobile apps for iOS or Android. And if you use Google Calendar, youâll be able to easily start or join from there, too.

Use your existing Google Account to start a secure meeting in Google Meet

If you have an existing Google Account (for example, if youâre a @gmail.com user), sign in at meet.google.com to get started. If you donât have a free Google Account, it only takes a minute to create one using your work or personal email address of choice (we require this step as a security measure, and youâll only need to do this once).

Meetings are limited to 60 minutes for the free product, though we wonât enforce this time limit until after Sept. 30. Creating a trusted meeting space is important, and being mindful when sharing meeting links in public forums can help create a safe experience for all attendees. For more tips on how to use Meet securely and effectively, visit our Help Center.

Google Meet for groups and teams

Groups within an organization can also use Meet to create video meetings that help coworkers connect one-on-one, collaborate as a team, and more. For organizations that arenât already G Suite customers, today weâre announcing G Suite Essentials. G Suite Essentials is perfect for teams that need access to Meetâs more advanced features, such as dial-in phone numbers, larger meetings, and meeting recording. G Suite Essentials also includes Google Drive for easy and secure access to all of a teamâs content, and Docs, Sheets and Slides for content creation and real-time collaboration.

Through Sept. 30, weâre providing G Suite Essentials and all of these advanced features free of charge. If youâre interested in G Suite Essentials, complete this form to get in touch with our sales team.

Google Meet for businesses and organizations

Whether itâs hospitals supporting patients via telehealth, banks working with loan applicants, retailers assisting customers remotely, or manufacturers interacting safely with warehouse technicians, businesses across every industry are using Meet to stay connected. If youâre one of the 6 million companies and organizations that use G Suite to power remote productivity, you already have access to Meet. Admins simply need to enable Meet by following instructions outlined on our Help Center. In the spirit of being helpful during this time, weâre providing three ways for new and current enterprise customers to access Meet through Sept. 30:

Free access to Meetâs advanced features for all G Suite customers, such as the ability to live stream for up to 100,000 viewers within your domain.

Free additional Meet licenses for existing G Suite customers without any amendments to their current contract.

Free G Suite Essentials for enterprise customers.

Enterprises can get in touch with our sales team to learn more.

Google Meet includes live captions powered by Googleâs speech recognition technology

Google Meet in schools and higher-ed institutions

Many schools and colleges today use Meet to power secure virtual classes, PTA meetings, parent-teacher conferences, tutoring, and even school socials. Meet is included in G Suite for Education, which serves more than 120 million students and teachers globally. If your school already uses G Suite for Education, your administrator can enable Meet at no additional cost. If your school doesnât use G Suite for Education, you can sign up here. To access resources for distance learning, visit Teach from Home.

Our hope is that by making Meet and G Suite more readily available for all, it will be easier to securely stay connected and productiveânow and in the future.
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snugbugs · Apr 29, 2020

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What to do when an invitation to a video conferencing call and how to answer it with google calendar

pparks1 · Apr 29, 2020

How difficult is it to set up video conferencing?

I would expect your lawyer would have something they use for video conferencing already. So, they would send you a link, you would click on it and you would join into their meeting. It's usually very straight forward.

WiIfred P · Apr 29, 2020

Select sound for video conferencing with Windows 10

Hi Polly,

This is Wil, one of the independent advisor, an expert with Windows 10 and a fellow Windows 10 user like you. I understand your concern about sound for video conferencing.

Digital Outputs refer to high definition digital audio devices, which do not use regular (analog) cables to connect to computers. For example, a TV with an HDMI connection, or a high definition audio system, like a home theater system.

If your computer only uses a speaker, you should not select Digital Output. If you are having a problem with no sound on video conferencing, may I ask what application are you using for the video conference? Check as well if that particular application is muted
on the volume mixer. Open the video conferencing app that you are using where you are having a sound issue. Right-click on the sound icon on the system tray (bottom-right part beside date and time) and choose volume mixer. Make sure that all sounds for all
applications are not muted.

I hope my suggestions help you. If you need further assistance please do reply back and I will respond as quickly as possible. Have a nice day.

Thanks,

Wilfred P.

Independent Advisor

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