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Video calls are hard to avoid in 2026, but what if you're a Google Meet office and your client uses Microsoft Teams? Both companies are now making it a little easier to join a call from their respective platforms, provided both have the necessary hardware.
"We’re introducing video conferencing device interoperability for Google Meet with Microsoft Teams, which will allow you to: Join Microsoft Teams meetings from Chrome OS-based Google Meet hardware devices, [and] join Google Meet meetings from Windows-based Microsoft Teams Rooms devices," Google says.
So, this won't help if you're working from home, looking to sync up from you laptop on the couch, at least not yet. But if your office conference rooms are outfitted with a Google Meet device, you'll be able to connect with a team that has a Teams gadget and vice-versa.
The feature should be available for all Google Meet admins starting today. The interoperability will be switched on by default but can be disabled at the organizational unit level if required. Rollout for end users starts Feb. 16; "Users can join with one click through the calendar or by meeting ID," Microsoft says.
This isn't something that most people will need to pay attention to, as it's primarily for businesses that use meeting hardware from Google and Microsoft to facilitate conference calls. For those organizations that do use that hardware, though, this could make inter-company meetings far easier to handle since there isn't a requirement to jump to a different platform.
Teams already works with several major video-conferencing platforms, including Zoom, so expanding that interoperability will help make Google Meet more versatile, and reduce barriers for communication between platforms.