Robin Good looked at a few tools for videoconferencing in PC-to-Mac Audio and Video Conferencing Comes Of Age, including a more detailed look at one of them:

"Session from WaveThree is an impressive application, the first one that I can see effectively bridging the long-standing barrier between Mac and PC users. While there are still some rough edges to be smoothed out Session provides effective audio and videoconferencing with excellent quality, application/desktop sharing, one-click remote control and an effective presentation multi-slide whiteboard that can accommodate images, photos and live annotation form all live participants. "

Here in the Telework Lab, Donna Garfield had installed and tested Session just last week. She was also impressed with its quality, using only a low-priced camera (Logitech's QuickCam Pro 3000) and her Win2K laptop's internal microphone and speakers. Her tests ran through all of the features and options available without experiencing any of the crashes or error messages Robin Good mentioned. Here's a quick run through of the steps she took to set up and test the software:

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