NetMeeting can still be installed and run on the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista as Microsoft published an update for 32-bit versions of Windows Vista on Ma that installs NetMeeting 3.02 on Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate editions. Īs of Windows Vista, NetMeeting is no longer included with Microsoft Windows. Users must start conf.exe manually from the Start menu Run dialog.
NetMeeting multimedia conferencing sessions over the network are established via RTP, UDP and IP network protocol.Īpplication sharing, shared whiteboard, chat, and file transfer features use T.120 standard over TCP/IP connections.Īs of Windows XP, the Start menu shortcut to NetMeeting was removed “by design”. For video coding, it uses H.263 standard and supports 30 frames per second. NetMeeting uses H.323 standard for videoconferencing: It uses G.723.1 and G.711 standards for audio coding and offers bit-rates between 5.3 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s. The defunct TechTV channel even used NetMeeting as a means of getting viewers onto their call-in shows via webcam, although viewers had to call on their telephones, because broadband Internet connections were still rare.
It incorporates technology acquired by Microsoft from UK software developer Data Connection Ltd and DataBeam Corporation (subsequently acquired by Lotus ).īefore video service became common on free IM clients, such as Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger, NetMeeting was a popular way to perform video conferences and chatting over the Internet (with the help of public ILS servers, or "direct-dialing" to an IP address). NetMeeting was released on May 29, 1996, originally bundled with Internet Explorer 3, and later with Internet Explorer 4.
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