The power of desktop meeting is that you can meet with your colleagues, deliver a presentation, kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files and collaborate on whiteboards from your personal computer at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of traveling from office to office or even countries to countries. There are also scenarios that we need to minimize human contact such as flu pandemic and desktop meeting is a viable alternative. The tools recommended are Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Office Communicator 2007